Course Name: GPU Architectures and Programming

Course abstract

The course covers basics of conventional CPU architectures, their extensions for single instruction multiple data processing (SIMD) and finally the generalization of this concept in the form of single instruction multiple thread processing (SIMT) as is done in modern GPUs. We cover GPU architecture basics in terms of functional units and then dive into the popular CUDA programming model commonly used for GPU programming. In this context, architecture specific details like memory access coalescing, shared memory usage, GPU thread scheduling etc which primarily effect program performance are also covered in detail. We next switch to a different SIMD programming language called OpenCL which can be used for programming both CPUs and GPUs in a generic manner. Throughout the course we provide different architecture-aware optimization techniques relevant to both CUDA and OpenCL. Finally, we provide the students with detail application development examples in two well-known GPU computing scenarios.


Course Instructor

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Prof. Soumyajit Dey

Dr. Soumyajit Dey joined the dept. of CSE, IIT Kgp in May 2013.He worked at IIT Patna as assistant professor in CSE dept. from beginning of Spring 2012 to end of Spring 2013. He received a B.E. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engg. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 2004. He received an M.S. followed by PhD degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2007 and 2011 respectively. His research interests include 1) Synthesis and Verification of Safe,Secure and Intelligent Cyber Physical Systems, 2) Runtime Systems for Heterogeneous Platforms. More specifically, as part of his second research interest, he works on building GPGPU application scheduling frameworks considering both a) embedded real time applications, and b) GPGPU cluster level workloads. He has been successfully running a popular course titled “High Performance Parallel Programming” http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~soumya/hp3/hp3.html) in CSE IITKGP for the last three years jointly with Prof. Pralay Mitra.
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 Course Duration : Jan-Apr 2021
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 Syllabus
 Enrollment : 18-Nov-2020 to 25-Jan-2021
 Exam registration : 15-Jan-2021 to 12-Mar-2021
 Exam Date : 25-Apr-2021

Enrolled

1679

Registered

32

Certificate Eligible

14

Certified Category Count

Gold

1

Silver

4

Elite

2

Successfully completed

7

Participation

1

Success

Elite

Silver

Gold




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AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75 AND FINAL SCORE >=40
BASED ON THE FINAL SCORE, Certificate criteria will be as below:
>=90 - Elite + Gold
75-89 -Elite + Silver
>=60 - Elite
40-59 - Successfully Completed

Final Score Calculation Logic

  • Assignment Score = Average of best 8 out of 12 assignments.
  • Final Score(Score on Certificate)= 75% of Exam Score + 25% of Assignment Score
Note:
We have taken best assignment score from both Jan 2020 and Jan2021 course
GPU Architectures and Programming - Toppers list

MOSOM JANA 93%

IIT Madras

SWETHA R 84%

Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati

Enrollment Statistics

Total Enrollment: 1679

Registration Statistics

Total Registration : 32

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Exam Score : Distribution of the final exam score of students.
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