CIS 565: GPU Programming and Architecture
Fall 2013
University of Pennsylvania
Computer Graphics @ Penn
Course Overview • FAQ • Schedule • Student Work • Previous semester
CIS 565: GPU Programming and ArchitectureFall 2013
University of Pennsylvania |
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Course Overview • FAQ • Schedule • Student Work • Previous semester |
| Date | Topic | Lecturer | Project | Reading |
| Wednesday, 08/28 | Course Overview | Patrick | ||
| Monday, 09/02 | Off. Labor Day | |||
| Wednesday, 09/04 |
GPU Architecture Overview GitHub Project 0 walkthrough |
Patrick and Liam | P0 released | PMPP Chapter 1 |
| Monday, 09/09 | Introduction to CUDA 1 of 2 | Patrick | P0 due P1 released. GPU ray tracer. |
PMPP Chapters 3, 4, and 5 |
| Wednesday, 09/11 | Introduction to CUDA 2 of 2 | Patrick | ||
| Monday, 09/16 | Parallel Algorithms | Patrick | Parallel Prefix Sum (Scan) with CUDA | |
| Wednesday, 09/18 | GPU Ray-tracing | Liam |
P1 due Friday 09/20. P2 released Saturday 09/21. GPU path tracer. |
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| Monday, 09/23 | CUDA Performance | Patrick | ||
| Wednesday, 09/25 | 6-10pm Lab: CUDA Profiling and Debugging | Zakiuddin Shehzan Ayub Mohammed AccelerEyes |
PMPP Chapter 6 | |
| Monday, 09/30 | Large-Scale Data Management on the GPU | Tim Kaldewey IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
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| Wednesday, 10/02 | CUDA Odds and Ends | Patrick | P2 due. | |
| Monday, 10/07 | GPU Database Workloads | Tim Kaldewey IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
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| Wednesday, 10/09 | Off. Fall break | |||
| Monday, 10/14 | Graphics pipeline | Patrick |
P3 released Sunday, 10/13. GPU simulation |
RTR Chapters 1 and 2 |
| Wednesday, 10/16 | Graphics pipeline Cloth and flocking simulation |
Liam and Patrick | ||
| Monday, 10/21 | Graphics pipeline | Patrick |
P3 due 10/22 P4 released, 10/23 GPU rasterization pipeline |
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| Wednesday, 10/23 | Graphics pipeline | Patrick | ||
| Monday, 10/28 | GLSL introduction | Patrick | ||
| Wednesday, 10/30 | OpenGL and WebGL | Patrick |
P4 due 10/31 P5 released 11/01 WebGL globe rendering |
OpenGL Insights Chapters 2 and 39 |
| Monday, 11/04 |
Computer Graphics in a MOOC: Beyond the Hype and Hysteria
4-5:30pm |
Eric Haines Autodesk |
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| Wednesday, 11/06 | Z-buffer optimizations | Patrick |
P5 due 11/07 P6 released 11/08 OpenGL deferred shader |
RTR 7.9.2 and 18.3 |
| Monday, 11/11 | Deferred Shading | Patrick | RTR Section 9.2 (AO) | |
| Wednesday, 11/13 |
Hackathon primer: ray marching Final project kickoff |
Patrick | P6 due 11/15 | |
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Saturday, 11/16 |
Hackathon 6pm-12am SIG lab Prizes courtesy CRC Press and Analytical Graphics, Inc. |
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| Monday, 11/18 | Final project pitches | |||
| Wednesday, 11/20 | The C4 Engine Architecture | Eric Lengyel Terathon Software |
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| Monday, 11/25 | Final project alpha presentations | |||
| Wednesday, 11/27 | Optional: Project 5 and 6 demos | |||
| Monday, 12/02 | Rendering the Whole Wide World on the World Wide Web | Kevin Ring Analytical Graphics, Inc. |
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| Wednesday, 12/04 | glTF and Rest3D | Patrick | ||
| Monday, 12/09 | Selected topics from previous semesters
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Patrick |
Potential topics in pseudo-order: