Accelerator: Using data parallelism to program GPUs for general-purpose uses

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 325-335

  Tarditi, David ^a   Puri, Sidd ^a   Oglesby, Jose ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Data parallelism; Graphics processing units; Just in time compilation

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA REDUCTION; OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTE-INTENSIVE BENCHMARKS; DATA PARALLELISM; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; JUST-IN-TIME COMPILATION;

GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS;

EID: 33846475612     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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