Language and compiler design for streaming applications

International Journal of Parallel Programming

Volumn 33, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 261-278

  Amarasinghe, Saman ^a   Gordon, Michael L ^a   Karczmarek, Michal ^a   Lin, Jasper ^a   Maze, David ^a   Rabbah, Rodric M ^a   Thies, William ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Parallelizing compiler; Productivity; Stream computing; StreamIt; Tiled processor architectures

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM COMPILERS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

HIGH-PERFORMANCE STREAMING; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; STREAMING DOMAINS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 23944451813     PISSN: 08857458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10766-005-3590-6     Document Type: Article

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