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Lecture 01: Introduction and Overview; C Programming; Unix
Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Figure used with permission from article The Mother of
All CPU Charts 2005/2006, Bert Töpelt, Daniel Schuhmann, Frank
Völkel, Tom's Hardware Guide, Nov. 2005.
Image from Intel Core Duo product brief.
Cell Broadband Architecture:
Figure from IBM
GPU parallelism:
Figure from NVIDIA
Due at the start of class, Wednesday, September 10.
Turn in short answers to these questions. Please turn in a hard copy (typeset or handwritten are OK). We will discuss these questions during class, so no late submissions are accepted.
The readings for next time are Quinn, Chapter 1.
Class examples can be found on the cluster in /cluster/home/terescoj/shared/cs400/examples.
