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CIS 565 website

Course website for CIS 565 at the University of Pennsylvania

http://seas.upenn.edu/~cis565/

Course Schedule

Date	Topic	Reading
08/31	Course overview 🔹 CUDA crash course	PMPP Chapters 3
09/08 (Tuesday, 6-9pm, Towne 309)	Parallel algorithms 🔹 Parallel Nsight 🔹 GPU architecture	Parallel Prefix Sum (Scan) with CUDA 🔹 Modern Microprocessors. A 90 Minute Guide! 🔹 PMPP Chapter 1
09/14	CUDA: Part 2 🔹 README.md Tips 🔹 Path Tracing: Part 1, Part 2	PMPP Chapters 4 and 5 🔹 How to make an attractive GitHub repo
09/21	CUDA Performance 🔹 Parallel algorithms: Part 2	PMPP Chapter 6
09/30 (Wednesday, Moore 212)	Graphics Pipeline: 1 of 2 🔹 CUDA Atomics	RTR Chapters 1 and 2
10/05	Graphics Pipeline: 2 of 2 🔹 Mobile Graphics	OpenGL Insights Chapter 23
10/12	GLSL 🔹 Ray Marching	Numerical Methods for Ray Tracing Implicitly Defined Surfaces
10/19	WebGL 🔹 Deferred Shading	🔹 WebGL Debugging and Profiling Tools 🔹 code examples 🔹 WebGL Deferred Shading
10/26	WebGL Profiling Lab	-
11/02	Tangram Insights. Patricio Gonzalez Vivo, Mapzen 🔹 Final Project Kickoff	-
11/10 (Tuesday, SIG lab)	Final Project Pitches	-
11/16 (5pm, SIG lab conference room)	WebGL in Production: Content, Rendering and Integration in the BioDigital Human. Tarek Sherif, BioDigital	-
11/23	Dave Kotfis, Lockheed Martin	-
11/30	Accelerating Watson Workloads - Enhancing, scaling, and accelerating human expertise. Tim Kaldewey, IBM Research	-
12/07 (Last day of class)	Graphics API Wrangling with ANGLE. Shannon Woods, Google	-
12/11 (Friday, 5pm, Moore 212)	-	-

Course Projects

• P0 - CUDA getting started, due Wednesday, September 2.
• P1 - N-body simulation, due Monday, September 7.
• P2 - Stream compaction, due Sunday, September 13.
• P3 - GPU path tracer, due Tuesday, September 29.
• P4 - GPU rasterizer, due Sunday, October 11.
• P5 - WebGL ray marcher, due Monday, October 19.
• P6 - WebGL deferred shader, due Tuesday, October 27
• P7 - OpenGL compute shader

Bonus Slides

Material from previous semesters that we did not cover:

• CUDA Profiling and Debugging by Zakiuddin Shehzan Ayub Mohammed, ArrayFire
• CUDA Odds and Ends
• SSAO
• Shadows by Sean Lilley
• Z-Buffer Optimizations
• OpenGL Buffer Transfers
• glTF and Rest3D (also see here)
• Modern GPU Architectures (modern in 2012) by Varun Sampath
• Perspectives on Mobile Graphics, OpenGL, and the Future of Graphics Programming by Dave Shreiner