Compiling a high-level language for GPUs: Via language support for architectures and compilers

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Dubach, Christophe ^a,b   Cheng, Perry ^b   Rabbah, Rodric ^b   Bacon, David F ^b   Fink, Stephen J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

GPU; Java; Lime; Map; OpenCL; Reduce; Streaming

Indexed keywords

COMPILER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; ERROR PRONES; GPU; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; HIGH QUALITY; JAVA; OPENCL; OPTIMIZING COMPILERS; POWERFUL DEVICES; PROGRAMMING MODELS; REDUCE; STANDARD INTERFACE; TYPE SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC STREAMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; LIME; MAPS; OPTIMIZATION;

PROGRAM COMPILERS;

EID: 84866393001     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2345156.2254066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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