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DirectCompute

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Originally posted to Chuck Walbourn's Blog on MSDN,

The DirectX 11 Compute Shader, also known as Direct Compute, is a powerful but complex feature. In addition to the Windows DirectX Graphics documentation, here is a list of resources for learning to use this technology:

Gamefest 2008 - Direct3D 11 Compute Shader – More Generality for Advanced Techniques link

Game Developer Conference 2009 - Direct3D11 Multithreaded Rendering and Compute link

Gamefest 2010 - DirectX 11 DirectCompute - A Teraflop for Everyone link

Channel 9 DirectCompute Lecture Series
Channel 9

PDC 2009 - DirectCompute Hands On Lab

The following samples:
BasicCompute11, ComputeShaderSort11, BC6HBC7EncoderCS, AdaptiveTessellationCS40, FluidCS11, HDRToneMappingCS11, NBodyGravityCS11, and OIT11

NVIDIA and AMD also did a number of presentations at Game Developers Conference, including the following talks covering DirectCompute:

GDC 2010 - DirectCompute Performance on DX11 Hardware
NVIDIA Developer Website or AMD Developer Website

GDC 2009 - Shader Model 5.0 and Compute Shader (AMD)

GDC 2009 - DirectX 10/11Visual Effects (NVIDIA)
NVIDIA Developer Website

Intel has a whitepaper on using DirectCompute for their “Ivy Bridge” platform that supports Feature Level 11.0

Microsoft* DirectCompute on Intel® microarchitecture Code Name Ivy Bridge Processor Graphics

SIGGRAPH: There have been a number of long-running GPGPU courses at the SIGGRAPH conference as well you should review.

Related: Getting Started with Direct3D 11