Transparent GPU execution of NumPy applications

Proceedings - IEEE 28th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1002-1010

  Blum, Troels ^a   Kristensen, Mads R B ^a   Vinter, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Code Generation; Computational Science; GPU; JIT; Python NumPy

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CODES (SYMBOLS); HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES;

BENCHMARK APPLICATIONS; CODE GENERATION; CODE MODIFICATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE; DATA PARALLELIZATION; DYNAMIC CODE GENERATION; PYTHON/NUMPY; SUCCESSIVE OVER RELAXATION;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

EID: 84918841637     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2014.114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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