Basic outline for paper/presentation:

1. Overview of GPUs
   1. How are they different from CPUs?
2. What are they good for?
   1. Applications
   2. Comparisons between CPUs and GPUs
   3. Our impressions of GPU architecture (Mark says he wants to see this)
3. What do they do?
   1. Stream processor
   2. Little branching
   3. Matrix Multiplication
   4. Data Manipulation
4. How do they do what they do?
   1. Not much is known about the actual architecture.
   2. Lots of ALUs? Something like that anyway
   3. Tons and tons of transistors, way more than CPUs

5. Demo of nVidia Apps (during Q&A?)

Links

Overview + Links

• http://www.computer.org/computer/homepage/1003/entertainment/

Overview

• http://hardware.earthweb.com/chips/article.php/3344721

• http://www.karbosguide.com/hardware/module7b1.htm

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit

• http://www.wave-report.com/tutorials/gpu.htm

What GPUs Do

• http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/vectors/2002_graphics.pdf

• http://www.ati.com/products/pdf/smartshader.pdf

• http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MzI3

Papers (more nitty gritty)

• http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/oskin/thompson-micro2002.pdf

Architecture

• http://www.hotchips.org/archive/hc9/hc9pres_pdf/hc97_10c_eerola_2up.pdf

Developer Links

• http://developer.nvidia.com/page/documentation.html

Programming

• http://www.gpgpu.org/

• http://libsh.sourceforge.net/

Industry Use

• http://www.mc.com/index.cfm

Projects

• http://cva.stanford.edu/imagine/

• http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/Projects/rendering/shaders.html