Instructions
Please add your term to the end of the table code using the following syntax.
| TERM || DEF || [[User:WUN | FN]]|| LN || CREDIT |-
- TERM: the term being defined
- DEF: definition of the term
- WUN: your Wiki user name
- FN: your first name
- LN: your last name
- CREDIT: the original credit (if any)
Glossary of Terms
| Term | Definition | Enetered by | Last Name | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host | The serial processing part of a heterogeneous computer | Chris | Szalwinski | - |
| Device | The parallel processing part of a heterogeneous computer | Chris | Szalwinski | - |
| ulp | Unit in last place - unit of least precision - spacing between adjacent floating point numbers | Chris | Szalwinski | Wikipedia July 15 2012 |
| Heterogeneous computer | Computer that has more than one type of processor (eg. CPU & GPU) | James | Boelen | Chris Szalwinski |
| NVIDIA | Producer of GPUs that contain CUDA cores | James | Boelen | Chris Szalwinski |
| HSA | Heterogeneous system architecture foundation - collection of hardware manufacturers creating heterogeneous computers | James | Boelen | Chris Szalwinski |
| STI | Sony Toshiba IBM - Alliance to create and develop the cell processor (combination CPU GPU) | James | Boelen | Chris Szalwinski |
| Open MPI | Open Message Passing Interface | James | Boelen | Chris Szalwinski |
| Open MP | Open Multi-Processing | James | Boelen | Chris Szalwinski |
| Cilk Plus | extension to c/c++ to be able to program heterogeneous computers (championed by intel) | James | Boelen | Chris Szalwinski |
| CUDA | definition | James | Boelen | Chris Szalwinski |
| OpenCL | Platform independent standard, developed by the Khronos group. Set of extensions you can add to c/c++ to do parallel programming. (complicated and hard to learn) | James | Boelen | Chris Szalwinski |
| OpenACC | #pragmas that leaves parallelization to the compiler | James | Boelen | Chris Szalwinski |
| DirectCompute | Microsoft’s version of OpenCL / CUDA | James | Boelen | Chris Szalwinski |
| C++ AMP | MS compiler directives (similar to OpenACC) | James | Boelen | Chris Szalwinski |
| Multi processors | processor technology that supports concurrency-oriented programming | James | Boelen | Chris Szalwinski |