Computergrafik

Massively Parallel Computing INFO4173 (Master)

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Content

Graphics processors contain hundreds of parallel processing elements and thus enable us to explore this realm of massively parallel computing today. The high number of parallel cores poses a great challenge for software design that must expose massive parallelism to benefit from the new hardware. The main purpose of the lecture is to teach practical algorithm design for such parallel hardware.

This year the course is offered as a one-week block course.


Please visit the course page on ILIAS for details on dates and material.

Taking part

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Criteria

Exercises during block course

Oral exam

Grading

Planned Schedule

Date Lectures Exercises
Do., 01.03.2018 Intro
Memory
Assignment 1: Kernel Calls,Memory Transfer
Assignment 2: Cross Correlation, Reverse Arrays
Fr., 02.03.2018 Control Flow
Sorting
Assignment 3: Reduction, Compaction
Assignment 4: Bucket Sort, Cell Coverage
Weekend Assignment 4: Bucket Sort, Cell Coverage (continued)
Mo., 05.03.2018 Data Structures
Profiling
Searching
Assignment 5: Matrix Multiplication, Searching
Di., 06.03.2018

N-Body
OpenCL

Systems

Assignment 6: Particle Systems
Mi., 07.03.2018 PDEs
Numerics
Assignment 6: Particle Systems (continued)