GPCE 2015
Mon 26 - Tue 27 October 2015 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
co-located with SPLASH 2015
Mon 26 Oct 2015 16:00 - 16:30 at Grand Station 1 - Session 4 Chair(s): Tijs van der Storm

Using GPUs as general-purpose processors has revolutionized parallel computing by offering, for a large and growing set of algorithms, massive data-parallelization on desktop machines. An obstacle to widespread adoption, however, is the difficulty of programming them and the low-level control of the hardware required to achieve good performance. This paper suggests a programming library, SafeGPU, that aims at striking a balance between programmer productivity and performance, by making GPU data-parallel operations accessible from within a classical object-oriented programming language. The solution is integrated with the design-by-contract approach, which increases confidence in functional program correctness by embedding executable program specifications into the program text. We show that our library leads to modular and maintainable code that is accessible to GPGPU non-experts, while providing performance that is comparable with hand-written CUDA code. Furthermore, runtime contract checking turns out to be feasible, as the contracts can be executed on the GPU.

Presentation slides (gpu_contracts_slides.pdf)1.14MiB

Mon 26 Oct

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15:30 - 17:30
Session 4GPCE at Grand Station 1
Chair(s): Tijs van der Storm CWI
15:30
30m
Talk
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16:00
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Talk
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GPCE
Alexey Kolesnichenko ETH Zurich, Chris Poskitt ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Sebastian Nanz ETH Zurich, Bertrand Meyer ETH Zurich, Innopolis University and Eiffel Software
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16:30
30m
Talk
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Hiroshi Yamaguchi The University of Tokyo, Shigeru Chiba University of Tokyo
17:00
20m
Talk
Towards Tool Support for Spreadsheet-based Domain-Specific Languages
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Sorin Adam Conpleks Innovation, Ulrik Pagh Schultz University of Southern Denmark