Mandelbrot set viewer
Interactive escape-time renderer. A clean introduction to grid/block decomposition and per-pixel parallelism.
Software
The image on every machine
One stack, identical on both systems, so code developed on the tower moves to the rack unchanged.
Base OS
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Cinnamon desktop
Build & numerics
- NVIDIA CUDA 11.4.48
- NVIDIA driver 470.256.02
- GNU C/C++ 9.4.0
- CMake 3.31
- BLAS / LAPACK
Analysis & viz
- Python
- NumPy / SciPy
- VTK visualization
Examples
Worked examples, source included
Three complete CUDA programs ship on the machine. They compile out of the box and are meant to be taken apart.
Laplace solver
Relaxation method on a 2D grid: stencil operations, halo exchange, convergence testing on device.
Monte Carlo photon scattering
Embarrassingly parallel transport simulation: per-thread RNG state and reduction across millions of paths.