The following slides are provided as Powerpoint slides.  You may wish to print these sides out as 1 x 2 or 2 x 3 thumbnails. The slides are not ready for use until the day of the class.

Lecture slides

Week	Date	Slides	Topics
1/2	Jan 13/18, 2011	Outline Assignment Preliminaries Demos Brief GPU History CUDA Prog. Model	Outline: Course contents, textbook, assessment, office hours Assignment preliminaries: Computer systems used, remote access, assignment submission. Demos: Heat distribution and N-body problems running on GPU server with graphics, speed-up factor. History of GPUs leading to their use and design for HPC. Basic CUDA program structure, kernel calls, threads, blocks, grid, example code: vector addition.
2	Jan 18/20, 2011	Multidimensional thread structure	Multidimensional grid and blocks, threads, blocks, grid, thread addressing, predefined variables, example code: matrix addition/multiplication (demos).
2	Jan 20, 2011	Assignment 1	Assignment 1 using Windows and Linux environments to compile and execute simple CUDA programs. Visual Studio, Linux make files
3	Jan 25/27, 2011	Performance measurements Thread synchronization Device routines Memory structures	Measuring performance, timing program execution, CUDA “events”, synchronous and asynchronous CUDA routines, bandwidth measures, computation measures – floating point operations/sec Ways to achieve thread synchronization Declaring routines to be called from device and local device variables Memory structures and bandwidth optimization
4	Feb 1, 2011	Assignment 2 Graphical Output	Notes on creating graphical output (for Assignment 2)
4	Feb 1/3, 2011	Memory Coalescing Demo Shared Memory Demo Matrix Multiplication	Demonstration of memory coalescing, code, performance improvements Demonstration of using shared memory, code, performance improvements Matrix multiplication performance improvements
5	Feb 8/10, 2011	Atomics Streams	Accessing shared data by multiple threads, atomics, critical sections, compare and swap instruction and usage, memory fence instruction and usage Computation/memory transfer overlap using streams
6	Feb 15, 2011	Zero copy memory	Zero copy memory
6	Feb 17, 2011		No formal class.  Available in Office
7	Feb 22, 2011		Review
7	Feb 24, 2011		Class test
8	March 1/3, 2011	Const. mem. experiment 2-D grid and 3-D blocks Detecting Cuda Errors	Discussion on class project Various topics
	March 7 - 12, 2011		Spring break -- no classes
9	March 15/17, 2011	SIMD image processing algorithms	Study of SIMD algorithms specifically suitable for GPUs Image processing
10	March 22/24, 2011	Thread divergence	Effect of control flow instructions, streaming multiprocessors, warps, loop unrolling, predicated instructions
11	March 29/31, 2011		Progress presentations and reports
12	April 5/7, 2011	OpenCL	Outline of OpenCL code, example adding two vectors
13	April 12/14, 2011		Brief discussion on project submission
14	April 19/21, 2011		Class project presentations
15	April 26/28, 2011		Class project presentations Student evaluation of course after last presentation on April 28th.
	Tues May 3, 2011		Last class. Review for final.

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