Lecture 6

Learning objectives

After this class, you should be able to:

1. Estimate the efficiency of your code in using hardware resources as a function of the number of threads per block.

Reading assignment

1. Read the UIUC Lec-5-6 slides.
2. Chapter 5 of text.

Exercises and review questions

• Exercises and review questions on current lecture's material
  1. What is the best tile-size for matrix multiplication using shared memory on our gpu machine, and what is its limit on performance?

• Preparation for the next lecture
  1. What is the purpose of GMAC.

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Last modified: 24 Jan 2013