The complete course notes have been posted for the full-day GPGPU course held at IEEE Visualization 2005. The course titled, “GPGPU: General Purpose Computing on Graphics Processors” was held on Sunday, October 23rd, 2005 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The course begins with the architectural, economic, and programmatic motivations behind GPGPU. It then introduces the GPGPU programming model and describes GPGPU languages (Brook, Scout) as well as high-level data structures. Mathematical and algorithmic primitives are then presented, followed by descriptions of many of the low-level technical details required for effective real-world GPGPU programming. The course concludes with several case studies and a disscusion of the future architectual, application, and research possibilities for GPGPU. The course organizer was Aaron Lefohn, and the presenters were Ian Buck, Aaron Lefohn, John Owens, Tim Purcell, Patrick McCormick, and Robert Strzodka. ( “GPGPU: General
Purpose Computing on Graphics Processors,” IEEE Visualization 2005)