Ece 459 Lecture 1 Programming For Performance

Summary

This is an introduction to the course aas well as putting some definitions to the term " The writeup at github.com/jzarnett/ece459/blob/master/labs/Lab1.pdf has all the information as well; this is just if you'd  ... This is a brief introduction to the course and a tiny little bit about me. We spend a few minutes to discuss why the course is (now) taught in Rust, and what it is about Rust that makes it advantageous to ... To wrap up the introductory topic, we lay out the roadmap of where we are going in the course, noting the major topics and ... We'll learn about Valgrind, which although is much more intended for languages C/C++, can still be put to use in Rust in ... A little bit soapbox-y, but talking about some rules and "laws" that help guide you to thinking about The basics of Rust! Rather than just telling you to learn the language on your own (that would be mean), some introduction to the ... We'll close out this topic by talking about some parallelization techiques that we can apply in the Having learned about the rules, we've already encountered some situations where we might want or need to break them. So let's ... While it's tempting to just assume that the CPU is the bottleneck device -- the one limiting the maximum speedup of the application ... And here, the part about the host code to set up and launch the kernel.