Tasty » Adam Sampson's ag0801 bookmarks

SIMD < SIMT < SMT: parallelism in NVIDIA GPUs edit / delete

How parallel constructs in CUDA et al. map to hardware.

to ag0801 gpgpu gpu parallel ... on 03 December 2011

TransactionalMemory - GCC Wiki edit / delete

GCC has implemented the ICC transactions extension (-ish). Hmmm. Perhaps this'd be worth a lecture in 0801?

to ag0801 compiler concurrency gcc transactional-memory ... on 03 December 2011

hge-unix edit / delete

An open-source 2D games engine. This looks pretty neat, much along the lines of the internal stuff we use at Abertay for teaching games programming -- good for student projects?

to 2d ag0801 engine games graphics software teaching ... on 23 August 2011

Lost Garden: Game Post Mortem: Hard Vacuum edit / delete

Discussion of one of the pioneering RTSs, with the tilesets available for others to use.

to ag0801 games retrocomputing ... on 22 July 2011

Beej's Quick Guide to GDB edit / delete

One for the 0801 students...

to ag0801 debugging gdb teaching ... on 21 May 2011

Game Physics Simulation edit / delete

Open-source game physics library.

to ag0801 game physics software ... on 30 March 2011

Flickr: mikedailly's Photostream edit / delete

Of DMA Design fame. Lots of DMA-related images, including sprite sheets for many of their games. (And the odd familiar face in the photos...)

to ag0801 dma games retrocomputing software ... on 27 March 2011

PlayDeb.net Beta - Welcome edit / delete

Site that lists games available for Ubuntu. This may be useful for AG0801 students looking for open-source games that they can work with or reuse graphics from.

to ag0801 games software teaching ... on 24 March 2011