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This workshop is intended to provide exposure to GPU programming. Knowledge of graphics is essential. The workshop will have lectures, tutorials, and hands-on assignments.

          A 3-day Workshop on GPU Programming

                IIIT Hyderabad

             April 12, 13, 15, 2005

Team: Sunil Mohan Ranta, Ajay Bedi, Soumyajit Deb, P J Narayanan

Visit http://172.16.7.37/gpuworkshop(LAN) for more details.

A overloaded week. Could not take rest after exams.
Had to prepare lots of stuff to keep the show running for 3hrs. 3 hrs is really long long time. All that I did was no more than 2 hrs anyday. Or maybe I was too fast.
4 sleepless nights. and did not sleep for last 44 hours. And its gonna be few more before i sleep. But now i am in a state that i just need to close my eyes for few secs to jump into a deep deep sleep.
Long time, since i worked so hard. Working hard make me feel good.
A great experiance for me. It becomes even more important when PJN sir is taking notes and asking _lots_ of questions. Sometime it looked like I’m presenting a MS thesis. But thankgod, it went well. Except for the first day, when a well working PC didnot work with a working projector. And it was delayed by half an hour.

A great learning experiance to me too. Teaching others make me (guess anyone) understand things much more better than otherwise. I mean I think about things which I otherwise take for granted. It helped me to build lots of fundas of Graphics, mainly the Hardware Pipeline.

Didn’t even get time for blogging. But I’m back again. Have lots of things to write about.
Will start development of de_iiit from tomorrow. Visit DF for discussion.

B/W heard the story about Research Paper Generator from slashdot. The flow of the papers generated is a lot realistic. The source of Tarun’s paper “Comparing Neural Networks and Symmetric Encryption” with Jawahar Sir. Tarun has got lots of congrats messages. Tarun. it was just for you to realize that you have to soon publish one.

Campus life com at work
Our most significant success (in testing phase).
And the first visible result of NCM.

Soon canteen will be starting, (15th most probably). After a long long delay. Which was for selecting the proper place for mess, proper caterer, defining better policies etc. One reason for the delay was the need to discuss everything with the Director. In IIIT no one else is able to make any decisions. I dont know why. After someone is given the responsibility of some department, then why does every problem (however small) of that department route to the director. And that makes the working slower and irritating.
But Sangal sir was very supportive, about everything. And all the meetings we had with him vere very fruitful. I’m really thankful to him for his support.

Though our term is getting over, but there are few more things left like bringing one more caterer ( @ Rs 25 a proper meal), and replace the two running messes with better ones ( @ Rs 50 a day).

But i feel bad for campus life ended up only fighting with eating problems. We could not concentrate on other problems. But okey…. this was the most important problem. And its getting solved.

I am worried about the fact that there are very few people in campus who want to work to make the campus better. Rest of us are only ‘geeks without other talents’. Out of the messcom of 60 members less than 10 guys are really involved with everything that is happening. I must thanks Pranav and Arpit for their efforts.

I hope that iiitians will benefit from our efforts. Even after we will not be here.

got a new system - one of the display wall
a playground screen. 19 inch. spent my time configurig my login on new machine. radeon 7000, 1GB ram, 120GB sata. feeling like working.
Showed PR project demo, assignment demo, ACG planatery system to sir.

its good here. a working like place.
but missing the lab. there is lots of bc there, lots of people, and of course of fun. Though most of the times I work in lab too, but I have to really concentrate on my work now. FOCUS .

PS : someone in lab said - i miss u, its only 3 months left. so stay back here.
That was too senti. i will give my time to lab.

its 4am now. good night.