CaKernel - A parallel application programming framework for heterogenous computing architectures

Scientific Programming

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 185-197

  Blazewicz, Marek ^a   Brandt, Steven R ^b,c   Kierzynka, Michal ^a   Kurowski, Krzysztof ^a   Ludwiczak, Bogdan ^a   Tao, Jian ^b   Weglarz, Jan ^a,d  

^a POZNAN SUPERCOMPUTING AND NETWORKING CENTER   (Poland)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Louisiana State University   (United States)

^d POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

computational framework; CUDA; finite difference; GPGPU programming; HPC; OpenCL; stencil computation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TEST PATTERN GENERATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); HYBRID SYSTEMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; CUDA; FINITE DIFFERENCE; HPC; OPENCL; STENCIL COMPUTATIONS;

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 83755206878     PISSN: 10589244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/SPR-2011-0333     Document Type: Article

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