In our final content lecture, we look at how to parallelize the graphics pipeline. What is challenging about parallelizing the GPU? What are the ways we could parallelize it? We discuss the sorting taxonomy of parallelism strategies, look at di

GRAMPS: A Programming Model for Graphics Pipelines and Heterogeneous Parallelism

Mar 5th, 2009 1h 20m

Jeremy Sugerman from Stanford describes GRAMPS, a programming model for graphics pipelines and heterogeneous parallelism.

Juggling the Pipeline

Mar 3rd, 2009 1h 16m

We turn away from a fixed-function graphics pipeline and explore what we can do with a user-programmable pipeline, where not only pipeline stages but also the structure of the pipeline can be customized. We look at Reyes, delay streams, and the

Overflow from the Pipeline Lectures

Feb 24th, 2009 1h 19m

This lecture contains the overflow from the 4 pipeline lectures, mostly the composition/display lecture.

Composition/display

Feb 17th, 2009 1h 11m

The final stage of the graphics pipeline is composition/display. In this lecture we look at antialiasing algorithms, compositing, the depth buffer, and monitors. [Note: The beginning part of this lecture is the remainder of the rasterization le

GPU Graphics and Compute Architecture

Feb 12th, 2009 1h 23m

John Nickolls, chief compute architect for NVIDIA's GPUs,discusses NVIDIA GPU graphics and compute architecture.

Texture

Feb 10th, 2009 1h 16m

Texturing is the process of applying images to geometry. We look at the function of texture and how we filter texture, and then how graphics hardware has implemented texturing. We also look at texture caching and texture compression. [Note: The

The Latest Graphics Processing Units

Feb 5th, 2009 1h 20m

Justin Hensley of AMD/ATI Graphics describes the latest GPUs from AMD's ATI Graphics division.

Rasterization

Feb 3rd, 2009 1h 19m

Rasterization is the GPU stage that produces fragments from screen-space triangles. We look at both pixel coverage and parameter interpolation algorithms. We also discuss perspective correction and look at historical SGI machines.[Note: The ra

Geometry

Jan 29th, 2009 1h 21m

In this lecture, we take a close look at the geometry stage of the graphics pipeline: transformations, homogeneous coordinates, the OpenGL lighting model, primitive assembly, clipping, and culling. We also look at ways to save computation and b

VLSI Trends: Why Graphics Hardware Is Fast

Jan 27th, 2009 1h 16m

In this lecture we turn to the technology fundamentals behind the rise of the GPU: what are the technology trends of today's VLSI designs and how and why do they impact the GPU and its architecture? We also contrast CPUs and GPUs as well as the

GPGPU 2

Jan 22nd, 2009 1h 19m

The modern GPU can be used as a general-purpose processor. This field of "GPGPU" (general-purpose programmability of graphics hardware) or "GPU computing" is having an increasing impact on GPU architecture, GPU software and programming environm

GPGPU 1

Jan 20th, 2009 1h 19m

Programmability

Jan 15th, 2009 1h 19m

The graphics pipeline has recently added programmable stages. This lecture covers the software and hardware fundamentals of the GPU's programmable stages, in particular the vertex shader and fragment shader.

Graphics Performance and Characterization

Jan 13th, 2009 1h 17m

How do we measure graphics performance? How do we characterize graphics hardware? What are the bottlenecks in a graphics application and how do we detect them? What are benchmarks, what makes a good benchmark, and how do we use benchmarks?