CS675 vs CS560
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The goal of CS675 in S10 is to compare GPU to multi-core+SSE CPUs.  This
course is a hands on, practical, one off course. We will read papers and
programming notes (eg from NVidia) with direct relevance to ujnderstanding the
programming model and its effects on performance.  Relevant techniques and
issues are : tiling, analysis and transformations for parallelism, memory bank
conflicts, vectorization (coalescing), thread space (grids blocks),
multi-threading (OpenMP).

Goal of CS560: Foundations of Fine grain parallelism
Polyhedral model, Alpha equational programming, Code generation from alpha,
Systolic Arrays, Project.

CS675 and CS560 overlap mostly wrt the cs560 project. Students taking both
can merge their cs560 and cs675 projects into one more substantial project.

CS675 is for the application oriented student who wants to learn how
to write high performance code on modern architectures. CS560 is for
the student who wants to learn how to compile a high level, implicitly
parallel programming language into efficient fine grain parallel code.