In this paper we consider the problem of programming for heterogeneous computer systems consist of CPUs and various accelerating devices such as GPUs. We introduce a few of the most popular models for ...

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Effectively using shared-memory multiprocessors requires substantial programming effort. We present the programming language COOL (Concurrent Object-Oriented Language), which was designed to exploit ...

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