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Course Material

GPU621/DPS921 - Parallel Algorithms and Programming Techniques

• Large data and compute-intensive problems benefit from parallel solutions.  Modern hardware has parallel processing capabilities in varying degrees.  Students study a set of industry-standard parallel patterns and learn how to implement parallel algorithms on multi-processor accelerators, shared memory systems and distributed systems using a range of programming models.
• GPU621 Course Outline
• DPS921 Course Outline

Instructor

• Chris Szalwinski

External Links

• Course Web Site – Lecture Notes
• Course Web Site – Timeline

Workshops

• The workshops provide timely opportunities to implement some of the material covered during the lectures. Each workshop is graded and all submissions are through Moodle.
• Detail Specifications
  1. Programming Models
  2. Debugging
  3. Map-Reduce
  4. Map-Scan
  5. Convolution
  6. Fork-Join
  7. Pipeline
  8. Bin
  9. MPI
  10. Fortran
  11. Matlab
• Grading - The due date for each workshop is noted in Moodle. The penalty for late submission is 50% of the workshop mark.

Assignments

1. Prefix Sum Analysis
2. MPI Project

Evaluation

• Assignments and Presentation 30%
• Workshops 20%
• Test 20%
• Exam 30%

Resources

• Current Software Support
  • Matrix
    • Cilk Plus - /usr/local/gcc/gcc-cilk/bin/g++ - version 4.9.0 experimental
    • TBB - /usr/local/gcc/tbb - version 4.1 update 4 (20130613)
  • T2108
    • Matrix Image (as above)
    • CUDA 5.5 July 2013 - supports Visual Studio 2012

• Wikis
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  • How To edit Wiki Cheatsheet