Michael Garland, of NVIDIA Research, discusses sorting methods in order to make searching, categorization, and building of data structures in parallel easier. (April 20, 2010)

16. Parallel Sorting (April 20, 2010)

John Nicholis discusses how to optimize with Parallel GPU Performance. (May 20, 2010)

15. Optimizing Parallel GPU Performance (May 20, 2010)

Avi Bleiweiss delivers a lecture on the path planning system on the GPU. (May 18, 2010)

14. Path Planning System on the GPU (May 18, 2010)

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6. Parallel Patterns I (April 15, 2010)

Steven Parker, Director of High Performance Computing and Computational Graphics at NVIDIA, speaks about ray tracing. (May 11, 2010)

12. NVIDIA OptiX: Ray Tracing on the GPU (May 11, 2010)

William Dally guest-lectures on the end of denial architecture and the rise of throughput computing. (May 13, 2010)

13. Future of Throughput (May 13, 2010)

Michael C Shebanow, Principal Research Scientist with NVIDIA Research, talks about the new Fermi architecture. This next generation CUDA architecture, code named "Fermi" is the most advanced GPU computing architecture ever built. (May 6, 2010)

11. The Fermi Architecture (May 6, 2010)

Jonathan Cohen, a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research, talks about solving partial differential equations with CUDA. (May 4, 2010)

10. Solving Partial Differential Equations with CUDA (May 4, 2010)

Nathan Bell from NVIDIA Research talks about sparse matrix-vector multiplication on throughput-oriented processors. (April 29, 2010)

9. Sparse Matrix Vector Operations (April 29, 2010)

Nathan Bell of NVIDIA Research talks about Thrust, a productivity library for CUDA. (April 27, 2010)

8. Introduction to Thrust (April 27, 2010)

Programming Massively Parallel Processors with CUDA

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Atomic operations in CUDA and the associated hardware are discussed. (April 6, 2010)

3. CUDA Threads & Atomics (April 6, 2010)

Lukas Biewald of Delores Labs, discusses performance considerations including: memory coalescing, shared memory bank conflicts, control-flow divergence, occupancy, and kernel launch overheads. (April 13, 2010)

5. Performance Considerations (April 13, 2010)

Patterns II

David Tarjan continues his discussion on parallel patterns. (April 22, 2010)

7. Parallel Patterns II (April 22, 2010)

Jared Hoberock of NVIDIA lectures on CUDA memory spaces for CS 193G: Programming Massively Parallel Processors. (April 8, 2010)

4. CUDA Memories (April 8, 2010)

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