GPU621/DPS921 Glossary

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• TERM: the term being defined
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• FN: your first name
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List 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	CUDA™ is a parallel computing platform and programming model that enables dramatic increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU)	Bhrugesh	Patel	NVIDIA
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