Introduction to WebGPU - CIS 565 GPU Programming Fall 2023

Guest lecture I gave at the University of Pennsylvania in November 2023, covering the WebGPU graphics API. Covers a wide range of WebGPU topics, including API overview, best practices, and more.

Links from the lecture:

Chapters
00:00 Intro
03:03 WebGL History
08:37 WebGPU Overview
12:47 WebGPU Demos
16:10 Web APIs vs Native APIs
21:30 "Hello Triangle"
39:51 More WebGPU concepts
43:44 Exposing Resources to Shaders
51:00 How WebGPU helps developers
57:48 WebGPU tips
1:13:10 Additional Resources
1:15:45 Q&A Part 1
1:44:03 Career Advice
1:51:38 Q&A Part 2

[novantha]

I’ve been toying with building a project in C, compiled to WASM and WebGPU using a combination of intrinsics and graphics programming according to the host environment. This has been an excellent introduction into a good portion of what I was planning to do.

[WoWbob]

Thank you for uploading! So excited to learn about this

[kodejohan]

Thanks so much for this awesome talk Brandon!

[jonmichaelgalindo]

Very useful and informative, thank you.

[u_walk]

hey brandon, as far as i know, the PLAYCANVAS engine you link to at 01:16:50 runs on htlm 5 and webGL, not webGPU. did i miss sth here ?

[Trooperos]

goddamn its so much knowledg here. give some table of content plox. thanks.

[geelemo]

Is this beginner friendly. Assuming i already know javascript ...?

[stbjang]

we are interested with 3d graphics APIs.

[CoolDude]

When making something with this, it's important to realise that gpu rhymes with gp poo.