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Playing With Gravity to Learn CUDA: Hello, World

I have been interested in CUDA for a long time, and while I've read a few books on CUDA, I have not actually gotten my hands dirty with it, yet. It's time to remedy that situation with this new blog series where I explore CUDA programming with a purpose. The end goal is to create a CUDA program that runs a scalable, multi-body gravity simulation on my GPU. Maybe I'll even draw what's being simulated on the screen. I'm not sure at this point how big I'll be able to make this simulation, but I think it'll be a good way to dive into CUDA and see what it's all about. The real goal here is to experiment, fail, struggle, and learn while having some fun doing it.

Representation of Sun-Earth Gravity