PAR Lecture 1, Thurs Jan 19

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  1. Read the syllabus.
  2. Read https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/ for an intro to parallel computing.
  3. Some points:
    1. Physics limits to processor speed.
    2. History of Nvidia.
    3. Intel CPUs vs Nvidia CUDA cores.
    4. Advantages and disadvantages of shared memory.
    5. OpenMP vs CUDA.
    6. Rate-limiting cost usually I/O not computation.
  4. Homework 1 is online, due Jan 26.

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