EE 4702-1 - What's New
16 December 2013, 20:13:57 CST
Grading Update 4c:Course Grades
Ready Spoiler Alert: No one who took the final failed. Those
requiring higher resolution
click here.
16 December 2013, 18:26:58 CST
Grading Update 4b:Final Exam Grades
Ready The range is [89,11], with a median of 56.
Scary, yes. Those with courage
click here.
Grades will be decided by tomorrow morning. The
next grading update will be posted by 21:00 tonight.
16 December 2013, 18:01:25 CST
Grading Update 4:Final exam grades will be posted
in a few minutes.
15 December 2013, 19:32:50 CST
Grading Update 3a: Pre-Final Grades Ready
The range is [100,24], with an average of 58.6.
To see the results of the pre-final exam
click here.
15 December 2013, 19:00:07 CST
Grading Update 3: Grading of the final exam
will start soon. The pre-final grades will be posted
later tonight. The next grading update will be posted
by 18:00 tomorrow.
14 December 2013, 17:43:19 CST
Grading Update 2: Grading has not yet started, but
may start tomorrow. The next grading update will be posted
tomorrow about 18:00.
13 December 2013, 17:46:21 CST
Grading Update 1: Grading has not yet started on
the final exam. I enjoyed seeing the project demos, good
work. Grading may start on the exams Saturday or Sunday.
The next grading update will be posted by about 18:00 tomorrow.
12 December 2013, 17:13:36 CST
Grading Update 0: Linked
Final Exam
to the
previous work page. Grades may be available over the
weekend. The next grading update will be posted tomorrow
by about 18:00.
11 December 2013, 14:05:52 CST
11 December 2013, 11:23:24 CST
The
pre final solution is now complete.
10 December 2013, 19:46:32 CST
Linked a partial
pre final solution
to the
previous work page. A complete solution will be
posted tomorrow.
10 December 2013, 17:24:51 CST
Earlier today there were problems with machines in the lab.
They should all now be working.
10 December 2013, 11:17:25 CST
Updated entries on the
code examples page. (The code in the
repository has always been up to date.) An important
one to study is
CUDA Demo 4: All-to-All Memory Access Patterns.
The code includes comments that explain thread assignment and
array element access. That must be understood to answer
questions about amount of memory accessed.
An exam solution and additional materials will be posted
later.
6 December 2013, 10:12:59 CST
Linked the
2012 Final Exam to the
previous work page. A solution will be posted later.
4 December 2013, 21:02:08 CST
The
take-home exam is now available.
It is due Monday.
Good luck!
3 December 2013, 12:45:20 CST
Linked the
2012 Pre-Final Exam and
its
solution to the
previous work page.
Note that this is
last year's exam. It is here
for practice. It is not this year's exam, which will
be posted tomorrow.
26 November 2013, 15:00:14 CST
Linked the
Homework 3 solution
to the
previous work page. Please study the solution.
20 November 2013, 18:16:35 CST
Due to a crowded lab, the Homework 3 deadline
has been extended to evening of Thursday, 21 November 2013.
20 November 2013, 18:00:45 CST
The following systems should run the homework and
projects:
agent.ece.lsu.edu, frost.ece.lsu.edu, helena.ece.lsu.edu,
ice.ece.lsu.edu, snow.ece.lsu.edu, titan.ece.lsu.edu,
venus.ece.lsu.edu.
20 November 2013, 15:39:12 CST
The classroom demo code has been udated in the svn
repo and for your convenience has been converted
to
html and is at the target of this link.
20 November 2013, 13:01:14 CST
Added today's classroom demo, which included the table
showing a and b-segment assignments to different threads,
to the svn repository. It's in the gpup directory
under the name demo-cuda-04-acc-pat.cc.
15 November 2013, 12:05:51 CST
Updated Emacs lisp files so that CUDA-related files
will be syntax highlighted. From a shell:
cd ~/lisp; svn update.
You should not have to edit any files.
13 November 2013, 16:25:41 CST
Homework 3 assigned,
due evening of Wednesday,
20 Thursday, 21 November 2013.. Please start early.
4 November 2013, 17:33:01 CST
Many of the lab machines are now working. Please
use one of the following: ice, snow, frost, helena,
titan, agent.
4 November 2013, 16:50:35 CST
The machines in the lab are not yet working, except titan.
4 November 2013, 12:37:07 CST
I've fixed the problem causing compilation to hang on
the following machines:
titan, frost, agent, venus, snow, ice, rain, manifold, helena, carrier,
nereid, simplex, tornado
There might still be problems running code, we're working on
them.
3 November 2013, 11:26:59 CST
The boxes code now lets you switch between a curved and
flat platform, use the '|' key.
1 November 2013, 13:34:43 CDT
The problems with the balls code have been fixed. If you
checked it out please update ("svn update" in the balls directory)
and try again.
30 October 2013, 14:22:50 CDT
The problems with the boxes project base code have been fixed --
I hope. Those using the boxes demo please update. You
can use the following commands:
cd ~/include
svn update
cd ~/boxes
svn update
Please let me know if there are any problems.
9 October 2013, 14:43:41 CDT
Deadline for Homework 2 changed to evening of 10 October
(technically, the wee hours of 11 October).
For Homework 2 pay attention to the following: (1) The code
instantiates three Cone objects, one for the big brown thing, one for
the chain links, and one for debugging. Any variables declared in the
global scope will apply to all instances of Cone, which probably isn't
want you want. (The cones have different geometries and so they cannot
share buffer objects.)
(2) When glDrawArrays is used, element i of the
normal array is used for element i of the vertex array. The
code in render_proba does not use glDrawArrays, it
uses glBegin instead and so it takes advantage of the fact
that you can specify a normal once and use it for multiple vertices.
8 October 2013, 16:23:30 CDT
Additional info about
Homework 2:
The solution to Problem 2 should be put in
render_probb. That routine has some code to demonstrate
the use of automatically sized arrays. The demo code should
be deleted before you put your solution in.
To switch between the render code for part (a) and (b) press
the 'v' key. To change the level of detail (
opt_lod)
press the 'TAB' key until "Level of Detail" appears near the
upper-left. The press the '+' and '-' keys to change the value.
3 October 2013, 9:37:28 CDT
Updated the
Homework 2 assignment with
resources to help solve Problem 2.
2 October 2013, 11:49:13 CDT
Homework 2 assigned,
due Wednesday, 9
October 2013.
20 September 2013, 10:25:47 CDT
Project proposal assigned
due Friday,
27 September 2013.
6 September 2013, 14:06:16 CDT
Here is a possible cause of the login problems: Once a small
number of login attempts fail the account will be locked,
and further attempts to log in will fail without explaining why.
The login attempt limit has been increased to ten, and the lockout
time is ten minutes (I do not know what it was before). I apologize
for the tedium and frustration this must be causing. I agree
that there is no reason to force a random mixed-case/digits/characters
password for a system with a secret hash and a small login attempt limit.
I will
work with our sysadmin so that next semester passwords will
be easier to type.
6 September 2013, 12:27:57 CDT
Many students have been experiencing login problems. I will
try to investigate the cause. In the mean time make sure
that you are logging into on of the listed machines (see previous
what's new entry), make sure Caps Lock is not pressed,
and be sure to distinguish a lower-case ell from the digit 1,
etc.
4 September 2013, 15:43:27 CDT
Updated list of machines that can be used for assignments, the
list is
procedures under account setup. Those machines are
snow, frost, ice, titan, agent, venus, and helena, which are
in Room 126 EE Building.
4 September 2013, 9:59:05 CDT
Homework 1 assigned,
due Wednesday, 11 Sep 2013.
6 August 2013, 15:22:40 CDT
Corrected class time on home page and syllabus. The
correct class time is 10:30-11:20 MWF. I apologize for any
problems this might have caused.
25 March 2013, 14:42:27 CDT
Set up Web pages for Fall 2013 semester.
Fall 2012