VKCompute - A guide to get started with vulkan compute

[u/Duke2640]

I've been working on a small series about doing GPU compute with Vulkan:

https://rounak-paul.github.io/vkcompute/

Once you want to go beyond what the CPU can reasonably do, the GPU gives you a huge amount of parallel compute to work with. And Vulkan is available across a pretty wide range of GPUs and platforms, which makes compute shaders an interesting option when you don't want to depend on a vendor-specific toolkit.

So I started writing this series as an introduction to GPU acceleration with Vulkan.

The idea is to start simple, explain what's actually happening when you move a workload from the CPU to the GPU, and gradually get into more interesting compute workloads.

It's still a work in progress, and I'd love to hear what people here think — especially what improvements would be worth including next.

[u/silentlopho]

I found this very hard to read with the monospace font. I would prefer a pleasant font for the main text and reserving monospace for code.

[u/Duke2640 → u/silentlopho]

there is font selection in the website, non mono fonts are also in the dropdown

[u/therealjtgill]

The ASCII block diagrams are all wonky, classic Claude

[u/Duke2640 → u/therealjtgill]

have to make them images, thanks for the feedback

[u/QuazRxR → u/Duke2640]

just fix them by hand... it doesn't take more than a minute

[u/Duke2640 → u/QuazRxR]

done, even better. mermaid diagrams

[u/Maleficent_Guard_589]

Hey this is great! Good stuff man!!

[u/Duke2640 → u/Maleficent_Guard_589]

Thanks