Generative programming: methods, tools, and applications
Generative programming: methods, tools, and applications
Modern C++ design: generic programming and design patterns applied
Modern C++ design: generic programming and design patterns applied
Composing high-performance memory allocators
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2001 conference on Programming language design and implementation
X10: an object-oriented approach to non-uniform cluster computing
OOPSLA '05 Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Deriving Efficient Data Movement from Decoupled Access/Execute Specifications
HiPEAC '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers
Revisiting sorting for GPGPU stream architectures
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Parallel architectures and compilation techniques
XMalloc: A Scalable Lock-free Dynamic Memory Allocator for Many-core Machines
CIT '10 Proceedings of the 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology
Formalizing address spaces with application to Cuda, OpenCL, and beyond
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on General Purpose Processor Using Graphics Processing Units
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With the success of programming models such as Khronos' OpenCL, heterogeneous computing is going mainstream. However, these models are low-level, even when considering them as systems programming models. For example, OpenCL is effectively an extended subset of C99, limited to the type unsafe procedural abstraction that C has provided for more than 30 years. Computer systems programming has for more than two decades been able to do a lot better. One successful case in point is the systems programming language C++, known for its strong(er) type system, templates, and object-oriented abstraction features. In this paper we introduce OpenCL C++, an object-oriented programming model (based on C++11) for heterogeneous computing and an alternative for developers targeting OpenCL enabled devices. We show that OpenCL C's address space qualifiers, and by implication Embedded C's, can be lifted into C++'s type system. A novel application of C++11's new type inference features (auto/decltype) with respect to address space qualifiers allows natural and generic use of the this pointer. We qualitatively show that OpenCL C++ is a simpler and a more expressive development platform than its OpenCL C counter part.