Nvidia Fermi Architecture (pdf)

CSC596/687-C: Accelerate! GPU

by: burt rosenberg
at: university of miami
semester: fall 2022 (231)
time: W 10:10 AM – 11:00 AM
location: Ungar 330–G

News:

• Project 1 is out.

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

Projects:

• Project 1: Hello World
  • See the Project 1 homepage.
    Due: Wednesday 7 sept 2022.
• Project 2: Dot Product
  • See the Project 2 homepage.
    Due: Wednesday October 5
• Project 3: Cumulative sums
  • See the Project 3 homepage.
    Due: Wednesday October 12. (class canceled for holiday)

  Class Notes:

  • Lecture 1
    • What is GPGPU and CUDA
    • Basics of the NVIDA architecture
    • Resources for the class
    • Demonstration and assignment

  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
  
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  author: burton rosenberg
  created: 15 jan 2019
  update: 24 aug 2022