Towards generating optimised finite element solvers for GPUs from high-level specifications

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1815-1823

  Markall, Graham R ^a   Ham, David A ^a   Kelly, Paul H J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite element method; GPU

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; PROGRAM COMPILERS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SPECIFICATIONS;

CODE GENERATION; FINITE ELEMENT SOLVER; HIGH LEVEL SPECIFICATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE CODES; HIGH PERFORMANCE IMPLEMENTATIONS; HIGH-LEVEL DOMAIN; MULTI-CORE CPUS; MULTIPLE TARGETS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 78650283968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18770509     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2010.04.203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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