Time - 9:00-12:00
Location - Corporate Training Room
April 7 - Parallel hardware and software
Topics - control and data flow, shared memory vs. message passing, thread-level vs. data-level parallelism
April 14 - Introduction to GPU Computing with CUDA
Topics - GPU programming, NVIDIA hardware
April 28 - Intermediate CUDA Programming
Topics - Syntax, sample programs, debugging
May 5 - Introduction to OpenCL Computing
Topics - Syntax, examples
May 12 - OpenCL programming on AMD GPUs and X86 CPUs
Topics - Hands-on programming and debugging
Individual Slide Decks (pdf) are below:
Running Class-2 examples on Medusa
Class 3b Slides (CUDA Debugging)
Class 4a Slides (OpenCL Introduction)
Class 4b Slides (OpenCL Introduction)
Class 5C Slides (OpenCL on the CPU)
Class 5D Slides (OpenCL Extensions)
Class 5E Slides (Profiling and Debugging)
Please try to review the first 5 chapters of the introductory material provided in the first reference below.
Week 1 - parallelize the pi program using pthreads.
Introductory material on parallel programming
The CUDA 2.0 Programmer's Reference Manual
CUDA courses taught at various Universities and NVIDIA courses
The AMD OpenCL Zone (you will need to create a password on AMD's system for this site)
OpenCL 1.1 Reference Pages (Khronos)
OpenCL 1.1 Specification (Khronos)