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Exhibitor: Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., University of Kentucky

Location: FPAT / Fifth Floor

About the Exhibit

If you have a lot of work to get done, having a bunch of friends help might get it done faster. That's most of how we make computers faster: rather than doing one thing at a time, the computer has a bunch of processing elements simultaneously work on different parts of the computation. We call that Parallel Processing. The catch is, it can be hard to coordinate all those workers. We have a maze for you to solve to understand how processing elements inside your computer's GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) can be coordinated. We also have a network wiring puzzle that challenges you to build the most effective connection pattern for coordinating between processing elements within a cluster supercomputer. Win a little prize for solving either...