Future Technologies Colloquium Series


A Data-Driven GPU Performance Model


Dr. Orion Sky Lawlor
University of Alaska Fairbanks- Dept. of Computer Science
October 16, 2009
10:00 AM

Building 5100, Room 128

Host: Jeffrey Vetter (vetter@ornl.gov)


ABSTRACT:

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) can deliver astounding floating point performance, but current implementations are rather tricky to tune. In this talk, we will present a series of performance experiments that demonstrate how to achieve high performance for general-purpose programs on the GPU.

BIO:

Dr. Lawlor is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, where he builds robots, writes software, and runs a 10-node cluster of NVIDIA GTX 280s. Dr. Lawlor was not convinced GPU programming was worth learning about until 2005.

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