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PDC Lecture 5
PDC Lecture 5
Lecture – 05 Week – 03
INSTRUCTOR: MUHAMMAD ARSALAN RAZA
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Fault Tolerance
Types
Faulty Systems
AMD
Southern
Islands
Architecture
NVIDIA Fermi
Architecture
GPU Architectures
Conventional CPU architecture
Modern GPGPU architectures
AMD Southern Islands GPU Architecture
Nvidia Fermi GPU Architecture
Cell Broadband Engine
GPU Programming
Maryland CPU/GPU Cluster Architecture
Intel’s response to NVIDIA GPUs
To Accelerate or not to accelerate
When is GPUs appropriate?
CPU vs. GPU hardware design philosophies
CUDA-capable GPU hardware architecture
Is it hard to program on a GPU?
How to program on a GPU today?
To cover this topic, different reference material has been used for consultation.
Textbook:
Distributed and Cloud Computing: Clusters, Grids, Clouds, and the Future Internet, K.
Hwang, J. Dongarra and GC. C. Fox, Elsevier, 1st Ed.