Podcasts by Graphics Architecture, Winter 2009
UC Davis course EEC277 introduces the design and analysis of the architecture of computer graphics systems. Topics include the graphics pipeline, general-purpose programmability of modern graphics architectures, exploiting parallelism in graphics, and case studies of noteworthy and modern graphics architectures.
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Parallelism from 2009-03-10T07:00
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...
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GRAMPS: A Programming Model for Graphics Pipelines and Heterogeneous Parallelism from 2009-03-05T08:00
Jeremy Sugerman from Stanford describes GRAMPS, a programming model for graphics pipelines and heterogeneous parallelism.
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Juggling the Pipeline from 2009-03-03T08:00
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 custo...
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Overflow from the Pipeline Lectures from 2009-02-24T08:00
This lecture contains the overflow from the 4 pipeline lectures, mostly the composition/display lecture.
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Composition/display from 2009-02-17T08:00
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 l...
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GPU Graphics and Compute Architecture from 2009-02-12T08:00
John Nickolls, chief compute architect for NVIDIA's GPUs, discusses NVIDIA GPU graphics and compute architecture.
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The Latest Graphics Processing Units from 2009-02-05T08:00
Justin Hensley of AMD/ATI Graphics describes the latest GPUs from AMD's ATI Graphics division.
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Rasterization from 2009-02-03T08:00
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...
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VLSI Trends: Why Graphics Hardware Is Fast from 2009-01-27T08:00
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...
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Programmability from 2009-01-15T08:00
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 fragme...
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Graphics Performance and Characterization from 2009-01-13T08:00
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 goo...
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OpenGL Graphics Pipeline Overview from 2009-01-08T08:00
What are different ways that we might consider doing rendering? Why did OpenGL make the decisions it did and what does the OpenGL pipeline look like?
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Introduction / Course Overview from 2009-01-06T08:00
Introduction to the course: why we should study graphics architecture, history of graphics architecture, overview of the course, administrivia.
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