GPU621/DPS921

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Course Material

GPU621 - Parallel Algorithms and Programming Techniques

Modern GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) technology supports massively parallel computations, which complements the serial processing capabilities of CPU technology. This course teaches students how to read, write, and debug programs that use both CPU and GPU technology. Students learn to reorganize existing programs into serial code that runs on the CPU and parallel code that runs on the GPU. Students also study cases that have benefited from CPU+GPU programming. Course Outline

DPS915 - Introduction to Parallel Programming

Modern GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) technology supports massively parallel computations, which complements the serial processing capabilities of CPU technology. This course teaches students how to read, write, and debug programs that use both CPU and GPU technology. Students learn to reorganize existing programs into serial code that runs on the CPU and parallel code that runs on the GPU. Students also study cases that have benefited from CPU+GPU programming and develop a CPU+GPU application for a client. Course Outline

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. Initial Profile
  2. BLAS
  3. Device Query and Selection
  4. cuBLAS
  5. Thrust
  6. A Simple Kernel
  7. Reduction
  8. Thread Divergence
  9. Coalesced Memory Access
  10. CUDA to OpenCL
• Grading - The due date for each workshop is noted in Moodle. The penalty for late submission is 50% of the workshop mark.

Assignments

1. Select and Assess
2. Parallelize
3. Optimize

Evaluation

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

Resources

• Software Support
  • CUDA Toolkit
  • Get Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate | Select Software Downloads | Go To Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate 1.49GB | Download iso | Burn, if error burn again | Finally, install

• Wikis
  • How To edit Wiki pages
  • How To edit Wiki Cheatsheet