CSCI-GA.3033-012

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs): Architecture and Programming

Prof. Mohamed Zahran (aka Prof. Z) mzahran AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu Thursdays: 7:10PM — 9:00PM WWH 1302
Office Hours: Wednesdays 5-7pm at WWH 328

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Welcome students! ... to the Graphics Processing Units course, edition Spring 2012. I will keep updating this page regularly. If you have questions related to this course feel free to email me. Here is some basic information:

This course examines the architecture and capabilities of modern GPUs (graphics processing unit).
Many computations can be performed faster on the GPU than on a traditional CPU.
This is why GPUs are present now in almost all computers; and the majority of Top 500 supercomputers in the world are built around GPUs.
GPUs are now used for a diverse set of applications not only traditional graphics applications; which introduces the concept of general-purpose GPUs or GPGPUs.
In this course, we will cover architectural aspects of modern GPUs. We will also learn how to program GPUs to solve different type of problems.

The text book we will use is Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach, by David B. Kirk and Wen-mei W. Hwu, 2010, (ISBN 0123814723).
Here is the course syllabus.

Our Grader: Young-Rok Bahn yrbahn (at) gmail dot com

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Lectures

Lecture _______________ reading material

Introduction chp 1

History of GPUs chp 2

Modern GPUs : A HW Perspective The following papers: 1 and 2

CUDA Programming Model chp 3

CUDA Threads chp 4

Assignments (non-programming)

Homework 1 - Due Feb 9th
Homework 2 (problems 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 from the text) - Due March 1st

Programming Assignments

Assignment 1 - Due Feb 23

Interesting Links (Geeky stuff about GPUs)

Important link: CUDA GPU Servers at NYU

GPU Computing
CUDA
GPGPU
First digital 3D rendered film (Thanks William Ward)
Interview with Ed Catmull (Thanks William Ward)
NVIDIA GPU computing seminars
For CUDA developers

GPU Simulators and Tools:
GPGPU_sim
Barra
Multi2sim (simulates both GPUs and multicore)
GPUOcelot (dynamic compilation for PTX)