COMP 790-058: Lecture Schedule

Lecture schedule and related readings

  • Jan 10 - Course Overview, GPGPU Intro: Slides
  • History of GPUs
  • Jan 17- GPU Architectural Features, Heterogeneous Computing: Slides
  • Jan 22 - Introduction to GL and GPGPU Example in GLSL (Jeremy Wendt): Slides
  • Source code: DrawQuad, GLSL
  • Jan 24 - Cell Architecture and Programming (Stephen Olivier): Slides
  • Molecular Dynamics on Cell
  • Cell article in IBM Systems Journal
  • HPCWire news article on Cell
  • Jan 29 - NVIDIA G80 Architecture (Steve Molnar), NVIDIA
  • G80 Technical Briefs
  • Jan 31 - CUDA: Compute Unified Device Architecture (Lars Nyland), NVIDIA
  • CUDA Homepage
  • Feb 5 - Computer Vision using GPUs (Sudipta Sinha): Slides
  • Feb 7 - Compiling for GPUs (Allan Porterfield): Slides
  • Feb 12 - Geometric Algorithms: Voronoi diagrams and distance fields: Slides
  • Source Code: 2D Point Example
  • Voronoi Diagrams
  • Fast Distance Field and Voronoi Diagram Computation using Graphics Hardware
  • Feb 14 - Geometric Algorithms: Collision Detection & Proximity Queries: Slides
  • Collision Detection and Proximity Computations using GPUs
  • Feb 19 - Going Wide (Intel Talk - Adam Lake)
  • Feb 21 - Future Architectures (Intel Talk - Stepen Hunt)
  • Feb 26 - Linear Algebra I (Sashi Kumar Penta)
  • Feb 28 - Linear Algebra II (Suddha Basu)
  • Mar 05 - Ray Tracing on GPUs (Christian Lauterbach)
  • Mar 07 - Image Pocessing on GPUs (Rahul Narain)
  • Mar 19: Fluid Simulation on GPUs (Hua Ping Lee)
  • Mar 21: Medical Image Analysis on GPUs (Kevin Gorczowski)
  • Mar 26: Candidate Talk (Deva Ramanan)
  • Mar 28: Project Update I
  • Apr 2: ATI Visiting Talk Close To Metal (Justin Hensley)
  • Apr 5: Project Update II / Surfaces and Modeling on GPU (Shawn Brown)
  • Apr 9: Volume Rendering on GPU (Li Guan)
  • Apr 11: FFT and Conolution on GPU (Cory Quanmen)
  • Apr 16: Sorting on GPUs (Sarhat Tekin)
  • Apr 18: Database Operations(ChangChang Wu)
  • Apr 23: Audio Processing on GPUs (Anish Chandak)
  • Apr 25: CUDA Review
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