ME 290R: General Purpose Computation (CAD/CAM/CAE) on the GPU

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• Final project writeups due 3:30pm Tues 5/16.
  
• 4/24 As announced in email, HW4 is due at 2:30pm 5/2.
  
• 4/20 Final Projects: Please send me your brief project status updates by midnight. Everyone signed up for final project presentation slots at the end of lecture. If you weren't there, your classmates signed you up for the earlier slot on May 4. :) Presentations will be 20 minutes including setup and Q&A, so prepare a bit over 15 minutes of material. The writeup will be due Tues. May 16.
• 4/20 HW4: Due at 2:30 pm on 4/27; no extensions. (Unless Xiaorui recovers her voice by Monday in which case you'll all get an extension till an hour before the 5/2 lecture and have one more paper to cover.) Turn in your summary of the four most significant contributions and/or shortcomings for the papers presented in class. So a total of 4 per paper, default 3 contributions and 1 shortcoming per paper, but if you think the paper is lame you can do 2 and 2, or if you really hate the paper you can do 3 and 1, but you must have at least one of each. One sentence maximum per contribution or shortcoming. If you want to list more than 4 per paper for your own future reference, that's fine, but I won't give extra credit for the extra ones. I'd like a hard-copy, but if you email it to me by 2:30 you can turn in the hard-copy in lecture. A sample and the exact list of which papers you should cover will be posted in the next couple days.
  
• 4/6 slightly revised Homework 3 with instructions if you give up on your chosen debugger.
• 3/16 Use del.icio.us to tag useful links for the class (see above) and share them for all to see.
  
• 3/13 Although there is finally a 290r newsgroup, let's keep using the me280 newsgroup.
• 3/9 new HW2 due date is Tu 3/14 as announced in email.
  
• 3/2 HW2 due date is Thurs. 3/9 as announced in lecture.
  
• 3/1 Sample visual studio project structure for HW2 from Jason, who writes "The project will require GLEW, GLUT, and CG to build and run. By default, the program will use a built-in 32x32 texture to test, but if given a filename and a dimension N on the command-line, it will attempt to read a NxN floating-point numbers from the whitespace-delimited text file specified. People with NVIDIA chips may need to make some changes to the source. Specifically, they may need to change GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB to GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_NV, and GL_RGB_FLOAT32_ATI to GL_FLOAT_RGB32_NV. Frankly, it may take more than this to get it to work, but it will probably take *at least* this."
• 2/28 Class handout: the list of possible future readings with some suggestions for papers you might want to choose from for your in-class presentation. See last slide of 2/28 lecture today for instructions on what to turn in vis-a-vis paper choice and final project ideas (due Thursday) and contact me with questions if you missed lecture.
  
• 2/28 We decided to co-opt the ucb.class.me280 newsgroup since the administrator still hasn't answered my mail about setting up a class newsgroup for me290r, and me280 isn't being offered this semester. Homework tips, questions, GPU wisdom, etc. are all excellent topics for the newsgroup. Useful info about newsgroups including how to connect to the ucb class newsgroups from off-campus using a proxy is here.
  
• 2/28 There is now a class mailing list for posting anything too urgent for the newsgroup,  named me290r-class followed by that useful email symbol usually pronounced "at" followed by newton.berkeley.edu.
• 2/23 Assignment 2 (with clarifications discussed in class on 2/23). due: TBA (3/7 at the earliest). Here is the sample fragment program from Rahul and a sample 2048x2048 floating point texture from Jason (warning: the latter is a huge ascii file, 13MB compressed).

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