Multi-core processors offer a high theoretical computation performance and therefore open up new fascinating possibilities in scientific and other domains, like multimedia, medicine and finance. In order to fully exploit the performance, an efficient mapping of algorithms to the architecture of the respective multi-core processor has to be determined. Compared to traditional single-core processors, a radical rethinking of programming methodologies needs to be undertaken.
The goals of this seminar are gaining new insights into modern multi-core architectures and the corresponding programming paradigms. For implementation and testing, NVIDIA Tesla and Sony PLAYSTATION 3 systems are offered. The latest software development tools (Cell SDK, CUDA, OpenCL) are installed in corresponding systems.