ST: CDA 6938 Mutli-Core / Many-Core Architecture and Computing

Notes

Acknowledgement:

Some of the course notes are based on the lecture notes of ECE 498AL from UIUC.

o Introduction

o Guest lectures from Mike Mantor of AMD (slides)

1. AMD HD4870 Architecture

2. Brook+ and CAL

3. DirectX 11 and OpenCL

o Brook+ (part I, updated part II, Performance modeling)

o Compute Abstraction Layer (CAL)

1. Introduction

2. CAL Kernel Programming

3. New features with RV770

o Nvidia G80 Architecture and CUDA programming model

o Nvidia G80 memory hierarchy, control flow, application performance

o Cell architecture

o Cell programming

1. Introduction to Cell Programming Models

2. Hello world

3. SIMD/vector programming and Histogram equalization example

4. DMA (Hand-on experiences: part 1, 2, 3, 4) (from IBM)

5. Cell Program Performance Analysis (static & dynamic profiling)

6. Cell Programming Techniques & Porting Tips

o A summary of multi-core/many-core architectures

o Parallel programming patterns

o An introduction to Larrabee

o Programming Multi-Core CPUs