PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENTS, HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS, CLASS ACTIVITIES, READING ASSIGNMENTS AND SEMINARS

PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENTS

2014

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Prac 0 / Homework 1

Practical 0 : Introduction

The focus of this task is on using OCTAVE (the free sort-of MATLAB program) and doing some statistical operations.

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Example_write.m

Prac 1

Practical 1:Pthread Implementation of Median Filter

This prac involves pthreads. Pthreads is a C extension for Posix systems that is fairly easy to use for implementing function level parallelisation of code. In this prac you will use median filters. Median filters utilise basic statistics to remove extraneous values/noise from data sets. These data sets can be of an arbitrary number of dimensions, but for this prac you will only be working with a 2D data set, in particular JPG images. For this prac you can work in groups of two or by yourself. In the report please clearly state your name and your partner’s name (if applicable).

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EEE4084-Prac01.tar.gz

Prac 2

Practical 2: Pogramming a GPU with NVIDIA CUDA

In the first part of this practical you will read up about the CUDA programming environment, with background from the lectures and notes on the NVIDIA family of GPUs. You will then view a sample CUDA program and describe its operation. The second part of the practical will require you to develop a simple CUDA application suited to parallel execution on the GPU, tested in simulation. Having completed the development of your application, you will test and characterise your application on a real GPU.

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PRAC02_CUDA.zip

Prac 3

Practical 3: Simulation of Planet Vogela with its Moon and Vogel Spiral Star Formation using OpenGL, OpenMP, and MPI

The objective of this assignment is to simulate an alien planet and starscape scene implemented using OpenGL for the graphics and MPICH to prove a parallelized solution to get a speed-up, using multiple processors beyond that which is obtained with a single GPU on one processor. The description ‘An Alien Scene’ below is what you are expected to simulate, with the objective of providing an animation with a
moon orbiting a planet

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EEE4084F_OGL_MPI_Prac3.zip

Prac 4

PRACTICAL 4: KNIGHTRIDER

The aim of this tutorial is to introduce you to Xilinx ISE and the Digilent Nexys2 FPGA platform. You will be taught to create VHDL & Verilog Modules as well as Schematics. You will also be taught how to simulate your designs using both VHDL and Verilog.

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Prac4_Resources.zip

Prac4-marking structure.xlsx

Prac 5

Practical 5: QEMU Arm Emulator and Kernel Building

The purpose of this lab is to familiarize the EEE4084F students with the process of developing with embedded Linux in the cross-compilation environment

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