OpenCL framework for ARM processors with NEON support

WPMVP 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Models for SIMD/Vector Processing, Co-located with PPoPP 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 33-40

  Jo, Gangwon ^a   Jeon, Won Jong ^b   Jung, Wookeun ^a   Taft, Gordon ^b   Lee, Jaejin ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b SAMSUNG RESEARCH AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Embedded system; Multicore; OpenCL; SIMD

Indexed keywords

ARM PROCESSORS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

BENCHMARK APPLICATIONS; BUILT-IN FUNCTIONS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; MULTI CORE; OPENCL; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PROGRAMMING MODELS; SIMD;

MULTICORE PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84899719703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2568058.2568064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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