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As a researcher in Wen-Mei's group at UIUC and having taken this class, I can say this is one of the best classes for gaining practical knowledge of exactly how to parallelize and distribute massive computational problems across GPUs and multiple nodes. The knowledge is very applicable, and the machine problems are well thought out to introduce the common parallel operations and optimizations.

For the final project I replaced the NPC AI in Half-Life 2 so that the optimal position calculations ran on the GPU and took into account many more parameters than the CPU version.