GPU and Distributed Architecture Computing 2023-2024    1st Semester

Instructor:

Conf. Dr. Rareș Boian <rares at cs.ubbcluj.ro>

Syllabus

News

2023-10-04: Welcome! Please read carefully all the details below.

Online Communication and Collaboration

• Login to Microsoft Teams using your university account (guidelines).
• Join the class with code r8y6o94 (guidelines)
• For announcements watch all of the following
  • University email @stud.ubbcluj.ro
  • News section on this site
  • Microsoft Teams General channel.
• The discussion forums will be in Microsoft Teams.

Graded Work

• Projects
  • Nonce (N): GPU calculation of proof-of-work nonce
  • Threads (T): User-level threads library
• Written exam (E)

Final grade calculation

• In order to take the writen exam or the re-exams and get a final grade, all projects must be presented
• Project delays result in a 1 point penalty per week. The counting is extended all they way to the re-examination period, skipping the vacations
• Grade calculation formula:
  
  
  Grade = 1 + 0.3*N + 0.3*T + 0.3*E

Re-examination

• Present the projects not yet presented
• Grades will take into account the delay penalty above
• To improve a project grade, ask the instructor, ahead of time, for extra work on the project in question

Weekly Schedule

Week	Lecture	Seminar	Projects
			N	T
1: Oct 2	Parallel architectures; GPU project kick-off	Project development
2: Oct 9	GPU architecture; parallel algorithm examples
3: Oct 16	Introduction to CUDA	Project development
4: Oct 23	Introduction to OpenCL
5: Oct 30	GPU work scheduling	Project development and grading
6: Nov 6	GPU memory usage optimizations
7: Nov 13	Synchronization, atomic operations, streams	Project development and grading
8: Nov 20	GPU project (F, N) optimization analysis
9: Nov 27	Distributed programming paradigms overview	Project development and grading
10: Dec 4	Functional and Clojure paradigms
11: Dec 11	Communicating sequential processes	Project development and grading
12: Dec 18	Actors and agents
-: Dec 25	Vacation
-: Jan 1	Vacation
13: Jan 8	Project grading	Project grading
14: Jan 15	Project grading