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== Glossary List of Terms ==
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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]|-|Heterogeneous computer || Computer that has more than one type of processor (eg. CPU & GPU) ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski|-|NVIDIA|| Producer of GPUs that contain CUDA cores ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski|-|HSA|| Heterogeneous system architecture foundation - collection of hardware manufacturers creating heterogeneous computers ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski|-|STI|| Sony Toshiba IBM - Alliance to create and develop the cell processor (combination CPU GPU) ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski|-|Open MPI|| Open Message Passing Interface ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski|-|Open MP|| Open Multi-Processing ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski|-|Cilk Plus|| extension to c/c++ to be able to program heterogeneous computers (championed by intel) ||[[User:JBoelen | 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) ||[[User:bapatel6 | Bhrugesh]]||Patel||[https://developer.nvidia.com/what-cuda 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) ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski|-|OpenACC|| #pragmas that leaves parallelization to the compiler ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski|-|DirectCompute|| Microsoft’s version of OpenCL / CUDA ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski|-|C++ AMP|| MS compiler directives (similar to OpenACC) ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski|-|Multi processors|| processor technology that supports concurrency-oriented programming ||[[User:JBoelen | James]]||Boelen||Chris Szalwinski
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