Sponge: Portable stream programming on graphics engines

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 381-392

  Hormati, Amir ^a   Samadi, Mehrzad ^a   Woh, Mark ^a   Mudge, Trevor ^a   Mahlke, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Compiler; GPU; Optimization; Portability; Streaming

Indexed keywords

COMPILER; COMPILER OPTIMIZATIONS; GPU; GPU PROGRAMMING; GRAPHICS ENGINE; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; HARDWARE DIFFERENCES; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTATION; LOW COSTS; MEMORY HIERARCHY; NON-TRIVIAL TASKS; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS; SOFTWARE PARADIGM; STREAM PROGRAMMING; SYNCHRONOUS DATA FLOW; THREADING MODEL; TIME-CONSUMING TASKS; WRITE ONCE;

ACOUSTIC STREAMING; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; HARDWARE; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM COMPILERS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84863827989     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2248487.1950409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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