Michael Garland schedule

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

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Parallel Computing with CUDA and the GeForce 8 GPU

Abstract

Ten years ago, the graphics card in your PC was just a VGA controller. Since that time, it has evolved into a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) that can produce stunningly good visual effects. In addition to all this, the GPU has become a fully programmable data parallel computation engine, capable of performing hundreds of billions of operations per second. Indeed, the GPU is already the most successful massively parallel computer in history. NVIDIA's CUDA environment enables programmers to harness this potential with relative ease, programming the GPU in a simple C-like language. In this talk, we'll look at how GPU architecture has evolved, what a modern GPU looks like, and how to program one.

Short Bio:

Michael Garland is a Research Scientist with the NVIDIA Corporation. Dr. Garland holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and prior to joining NVIDIA was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Garland regularly serves on international program committees for conferences such as ACM SIGGRAPH and IEEE Visualization, and is the program co-chair for the 2007 Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing. He has published numerous articles in leading conferences and journals on a range of topics including mesh processing, geometric modeling, animation, data mining, and visualization.

November 26th, 2007
Drive and arrive evening.

November 27, 2007
Breakfast

9:15 am : Karu Sankaralingam pick up from Doubletree.

10:15 am : Mark Hill, 6373 CSS

11:00 am : Li Zhang, 6387 CSS

11:45 am : Lunch (David Wood).

           Leave with Greg at 1st floor elevator for next meeting

1:00 pm : Graphics students (Greg, Aaron, Feng, ...)

2:30 pm : Cookies

2:45 pm : Talk

4:00 pm : CS Arch students (Multifacet)

5:30 pm : ?

Dinner: Karu, Liblit

November 28, 2007
Breakfast

9:00 am : Mikko Lipasti (EH4613)

9:45 am : ECE students

11:00 am : CS Arch students (Multiscalar, Vertical)

noon : Lunch with Gleicher

1:00 pm : leave.