GPGPU
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Main Publications
Lee W. Howes, Paul Price, Oskar Mencer, Olav Beckmann and Oliver Pell, "Comparing FPGAs to Graphics Accelerators and the Playstation 2 using a unified source description", IEEE Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 2006.
Lee W. Howes, Paul Price, Oskar Mencer and Olav Beckmann, "FPGAs, GPUs and the PS2 - A Single Programming Methodology" , poster, IEEE Symposium on Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2006.
Brief Introduction
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), graphics processing units (scope for hardware acceleration of applications. Implementing algorithms on multiple architectures can be a long and complicated process. We demonstrate an approach to compiling for FPGAs, GPUs and PS2 vector units using a unified description based on A Stream Compiler (ASC) for FPGAs. As an example of its use we implement a Montecarlo simulation using ASC. The unified description allows us to evaluate optimisations for specific architectures on top of a single base description, saving time and effort.
This project funded by donations from Sony and Nvidia.
