LSU EE 7700-2 - What's New

Preliminary Course Grades Ready The grades will stand unless a final exam is submitted. To see the course grade (read the text above the graph), homework grades, and course averages click here.

Take-home final is now available, due Monday, 12 May 2008. It's optional and there's no need to feel guilty if you look at it and decided not to complete it.

The take-home final exam will be posted by about 14:00 today. Sorry about the delay.

Pre-Final Exam Grades Ready The grades range from 91 to 43. If grades were to be assigned only on the pre-final the lowest grade would be a B. To see the distribution or your own grade click here.
The take home final will be posted tomorrow (see the previous what's new entry).

Pre-Final exam grades will be posted by 18:00. The final exam, which is optional, will be posted by noon tomorrow and will be due on Monday, 12 May 2008. If no final is submitted the pre-final grade will be used as the final exam grade, if a final is submitted the grade will be the maximum of the pre-final and final grade.

In the exam Problem 3 change texture processor to fragment processor. The posted exam has been corrected.

Linked Homework 5 solution to previous work page.

For those pressing refresh every 20 seconds for the last few hours, good news: the take-home pre-final is available, solutions are due Monday, 5 May 2008.

Linked Homework 4 Solution to the previous work page.

Linked Homework 3 Solution Prose and Linked Homework 3 Solution Code to the previous work page.

Linked Homework 2 Solution to the previous work page.

Santosh has helpfully created a forum topic for discussing Homework 5. It has some hints on how to solve the assignment.

Linked NVIDIA CUDA Guide, an API for GPGPU (general-purpose GPU use), to the references page. This guide provides details on the 8800 series.

Linked a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 description to the references page.

Also, don't forget Homework 5.

Updated the demo-3-textures code and added demo-5-fshader (fragment shader) code in the svn repository. Also linked these to the code examples page. The comments in demo-5-fshader.cc may help in understanding programmable shaders for Homework 5.

Added link to Emacs xkcd cartoon to the procedures page.

Homework 5 assigned, due 21 April 2008.

Homework 4 assigned, due 14 April 2008.

Linked the Homework 1 solution to the previous work page.

Linked references on shader languages and the AMD Radeon R5xx series to the references page.

Updated material in programmable shader API (previsouly called GPU programming) lecture notes and also linked it and the GeForce 3 lectures to the lecture notes page.

Linked the specification for the OpenGL Shading Language and a description of the GeForce 6800 to the references page. Password required for 6800 description outside of the lsu.edu domain.

Posted a draft of GPU programming lecture.

Checked in part of solution to Homework 3. If you've already checked out code use command "svn update" in your working directory. The command will not erase any changes made to hw3.cc, thought it might get confused about how to merge your changes with mine.

Here is a draft of today's lecture.
Expect a hint on the homework today.

Added a paper describing an early programmable GPU series, the NVIDIA GeForce3 to the references page. Accessible from within lsu.edu or by password.

Code for Homework 3 (due Monday, 31 March 2008.) now in svn repository.

Homework 3 assigned, due Monday, 31 March 2008.

There will be a talk on video game careers by Philip Holt, the General Manager of EA Games' Tiburon Studios, on Wednesday, 26 March 2008 at 13:00 in 338 Johnston Hall. If enough students attend the talk the 26 March class will be held late.

Make major additions to the PSE Documentation (not to be confused with the instructions mentioned below). The documentation is still rough and incomplete, expect further changes soon.

Made some minor changes to PSE instructions on EE 4720 Procedures page.

Homework 2 assigned, due Wednesday, 27 February 2008. Use this topic to discuss the assignment.

Linked first note set to the lecture notes page.

Added general instructions on how to checkout, edit, and debug homework assignments under "Programming Homework Work Flow" in the procedures page.

Updated account setup instructions on procedures page.

Expect updates on Homework 1 instructions over the next few days.