Lecture 22

Learning objectives

After this class, you should be able to:

1. Discuss the relative merits of scatter and gather based parallelism.
2. Use thread coarsening to improve the efficiency of Direct Coulomb Summation.

Reading assignment

1. UIUC Lectures 23-24.
2. Chapter 12 of the text book.

Exercises and review questions

• Exercises and review questions on current lecture's material
  1. Discuss the relative merits of the following two strategies for storing the array of atoms: (i) use constant memory and (ii) use shared memory.

• Preparation for the next lecture
  1. None.

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Last modified: 2 Apr 2013