QuickStart Guide to Vulkan Compute: Accelerate Innovation with GPU Compute
暫譯: Vulkan 計算快速入門指南：利用 GPU 計算加速創新

Harness the Power of Vulkan Compute - Without the Overwhelm

If you've ever opened the Vulkan specification and felt like you were staring into the cockpit of a jumbo jet, you're not alone. Vulkan is famously intricate. Its raw power is thrilling-but for newcomers, it can feel like trying to fly without a manual.

This book is your fast-track guide to Vulkan compute. While most Vulkan resources plunge into graphics pipelines, this one stays laser-focused on compute-using the GPU as a parallel processing engine for data crunching, simulations, image manipulation, AI experiments, and more.

With a friendly, conversational tone and step-by-step walkthroughs, you'll build practical, minimal C programs that reveal how Vulkan's pieces fit together. Inside, you'll learn:

• How to set up your Vulkan development environment on Windows, Linux, or macOS (via MoltenVK)

• The essential Vulkan building blocks: instances, devices, queues, and memory

• How to write and run compute shaders that execute directly on the GPU

• Debugging workflows with tools like RenderDoc and NSight

• Performance tuning strategies to squeeze the most out of your hardware

• Mini-projects-from image filters to parallel reductions and particle simulations

Each chapter blends working code, clear diagrams, and plain-English explanations, helping you not just copy-paste examples, but truly understand what's happening under the hood. You'll also uncover common pitfalls, synchronization gotchas, and the mindset needed to think like a GPU programmer.

By the end, you'll be ready to build your own GPU-powered applications-and excited to explore Vulkan's deeper capabilities. Whether you're a graphics developer branching into compute or a curious coder eager to harness GPU speed, this book is your on-ramp to Vulkan compute.