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== Glossary of Terms Syntax ==<big><pre>| TERM || DEF || [[User:WUN | FN]]|| LN || CREDIT |-</pre></big>* 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)<br />
== List of Terms == {| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellpadding="5"|+ GPU610/DPS915! Term !! Description Definition !! Enetered by !! Last Name !! Credit
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|Host || The serial processing part of a heterogeneous computer||[[User:Chris Szalwinski | Chris]]||Szalwinski||-
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|Device|| The parallel processing part of a heterogeneous computer||[[User:Chris Szalwinski | Chris]]||Szalwinski||-
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|ulp|| Unit in last place - unit of least precision - spacing between adjacent floating point numbers ||[[User:Chris Szalwinski | Chris]]||Szalwinski||[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_in_the_last_place Wikipedia July 15 2012]
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|Heterogeneous computer || Computer that has more than one type of processor (eg. CPU & GPU) ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski
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|NVIDIA|| Producer of GPUs that contain CUDA cores ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski
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|HSA|| Heterogeneous system architecture foundation - collection of hardware manufacturers creating heterogeneous computers ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski
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|STI|| Sony Toshiba IBM - Alliance to create and develop the cell processor (combination CPU GPU) ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski
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|Open MPI|| Open Message Passing Interface ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski
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|Open MP|| Open Multi-Processing ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski
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|Cilk Plus|| extension to c/c++ to be able to program heterogeneous computers (championed by intel) ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski
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|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) ||[[User:bapatel6 | Bhrugesh]]||Patel||[https://developer.nvidia.com/what-cuda NVIDIA]
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|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) ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski
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|OpenACC|| #pragmas that leaves parallelization to the compiler ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski
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|DirectCompute|| Microsoft’s version of OpenCL / CUDA ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski
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|C++ AMP|| MS compiler directives (similar to OpenACC) ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski
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|Multi processors|| processor technology that supports concurrency-oriented programming ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski
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