Nvidia Fermi Architecture (pdf)

CSC596-G: Accelerate! GPU

by: burt rosenberg
at: university of miami
semester: fall 2024 (251)
time: W 2:30pm – 3:20pm
location: Knight physics 108

Calendar:

Dec 6, Friday:
Finals date 59x get-together!
Nov 20:
Final projects (and during finals).
Oct 9:
See class Slack for hurricane Milton news.

Syllabus:

• Wednesday only course.
• Seminar style — student involvement expected.
• An experiment in opening up the curriculum as a community by the UM community.
• Project based, with introduction to the architecture of GPU's, and algorithms for concurrent computation.
• Sign up on slack to csc-minicourses
• The course Accelerate! github.

Projects:

• Project 1: Hello World
  • See the Project 1: Hello World.
    Due: TBA
• Project 2: Dot Product
  • See the Project 2: Dot Product.
    Due: TBA
• Project 3: Cumulative sums
  • See the Project 3 homepage.
    Due: TBA
• Project 4: Alternating Sort
  • See the Project 4 github.
  • Due: TBA
• Project 5: Even–Odd Merging networks
  • Batcher Merge Sort
  • Due: TBA
• Project 6: Bitonic sorting
  • Batcher Bitonic Sort (image)
  • Due: TBA

Class Notes:

• Lecture 1
  • GPU Concepts
• Lecture 2
  • Running the Hello World project
  • Algorithm for summing a vector
  • dot product in log N depth using N processors
• Lecture 3
  • Cumulative sum
• Lecture 4
  • Sorting Networks
  • Sorting Networks and their applications, K. E. Batcher (1968)
• Lecture 5
  • The Fast Fourier Series
  • Introduction to Trigonometric Series by Erik Cheever at Swarthmore.
  • A visual introduction by Jesus Najera on Cantorsparadise.org.
  • Notes from my algorithms course.

Textbook like stuff:

• Professional CUDA C Programming by Chen, Grossman and KcKerncher.
• CUDA Toolkit Documentation
  • Programming Guide ← start here

References like stuff:

• NVIDIA Microarchtectures
  • Tesla Architecture
  • Fermi Architecture Whitepaper
  • Kepler Architecture Whitepaper
  • Maxwell Architecture
  • Pascal Architecture Whitepaper
  • Volta Architecture
  • Turing Architecture
  • Ampere A100 Architecture Whitepaper
  • Ampere GA10 Architecture Whitepaper
  • Lovelace/Harper

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

author: burton rosenberg
created: 15 jan 2019
update: 28 nov 2024