Welcome

Welcome to Summer School 2010 at the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering!

This is the course web site for Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Many-core Processors (August 2-6, 2010). The course starts promptly each day at 15:00 hours UTC. In local time coordinates, the daily start time is:
  • 8:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time (Los Angeles, UTC-7)
  • 9:00 AM Mountain Daylight Time (Denver, UTC-6)
  • 10:00 AM Central Daylight Time (Chicago, UTC-5)
  • 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time (New York, UTC-4)
Each class day is approximately 8 hours long. See the course schedule for a detailed timeline.

The prerequisites for this course are listed on the public course page. In particular, a basic knowledge of CUDA is required. Some of you participated in the Introduction to CUDA short course that preceded this course. The CUDA course materials continue to be available online for your convenience.

While the course is in progress, if you have a question, simply start a group discussion thread (but read this note on etiquette first). There will be TAs at the sites monitoring this group throughout the workshop.

If you registered to attend this course at one of the ten participating sites, please complete your pre-Summer School survey before the course begins. A link to the survey was sent to your e-mail address by the Survey Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago (http://www.srl.uic.edu/) on July 31, 2010. If you have more immediate feedback that you'd like to share with the Virtual School, please drop us a line at info@vscse.org.

Every student is required to bring a laptop to Summer School. Please review the software requirements ahead of time. If you have problems installing the software, feel free to post questions on the discussion list.

Every student participating on-site will receive a login account on a GPU compute cluster at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. If you haven't received your account, or are having trouble accessing your account, talk to a TA at your site.

This google group provides participants with access to course content, slides, examples, exercises and other documents, and the ability to post questions.  If you have trouble accessing this site or posting questions, send e-mail to info@vscse.org.