LSU EE 7700-1 - What's New

Linked pre-final solution to the previous work page. Keep checking back for additional resources, exam clarifications (if any), etc.

The take-home test is now available. Solutions are due Friday, 14 May 2010 at 16:00. A solution to the pre-final will be posted Tuesday or Wednesday.

Linked the radix sort paper to the page.

Correction on take-home exam: In Problem 1 a bitwise or operator did not show up. Here are the original and corrected lines:

      const int ti_maybe = ti  ( 1 << tree_level );  // Wrong, | missing.

      const int ti_maybe = ti | ( 1 << tree_level ); // Correct.

Also, in part (d) of Problem 1, change the word “patches” to “passes.” The posted copy has the corrections applied.

Pre Take Home Final is available, due Friday morning, 7 May 2010.

Also linked last years pre final and its solution to the page.

Homework 4 assigned, due Wednesday, 28 April 2010 The coding part of this assignment is easy, the emphasis is on analyiss of existing code.

Changed Homework 3 slightly, the code only needs to count ball/ball proximity, it can ignore ball/tile proximity.

Homework 3 assigned, due Wednesday, 21 April 2010.

Linked a description of NVIDIA Fermi to the GPU descriptions page. Also added the balls code under the GPGPU section of the code examples page (and updated a similar entry on the undergraduate course page). Finally, added videos to the GPU Physics programs on the code examples page.

Linked solution to Homework 1 to the previous work page. The balls project base code has been updated with the Homework 2 solution, however it uses the pBuffer_Object class rather than using buffer objects directly.

Clarification on the homework: Your solution to problem 2 should use buffer objects. It should not use the pBuffer_Object class, instead it should use OpenGL buffer object calls, such as glBufferData.

Homework 2 assigned, due 29 March 2010.

Made minor update to notes covering GeForce 3, linked to the lecture notes page.

Problem with workstation lab computers fixed.

Homework 1 assigned, due 3 March 2010. ~~At this moment the class account setup instructions won't work.~~ [Update: Fixed.]

The first homework assignment will be posted tomorrow.

Read this following paper on the NVIDIA GeForce 3 by Friday. [Update:] The NVIDIA paper link works from within LSU or outside LSU with the user name "ee4720", email for the password. The SPARC 64V floorplan shown in class today appeared in this paper on the Fujitsu SPARC 64 V.