Technical Articles

Abstract: Since the advent of heterogeneous computing a large number of applications have been ported to utilize heterogeneous systems. Data parallel applications have mapped their computation to the large numbers of cores in heterogeneous systems and reported large performance improvements. However, the programming APIs targeting heterogeneous systems require explicit data movement and thread management by [...]

Abstract: The running times of some sequential programs could be greatly reduced by converting and running its parallelizable, time dominant code on a massively, parallel processor architecture. Example program application areas include: bioinformatics, molecular dynamics, video and image processing, signal and audio processing, medical imaging, and cryptography. A low cost, low power, parallel computing platform [...]

Abstract: Heterogeneous computer systems are ubiquitous in all areas of computing, from mobile to high-performance computing. They promise to deliver increased performance at lower energy cost than purely homogeneous, CPU-based systems. In recent years GPU-based heterogeneous systems have become increasingly popular. They combine a programmable GPU with a multi-core CPU. GPUs have become flexible enough [...]