Approach for Teaching Parallel Programming in Heterogeneous Environments Using OpenCL
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https://doi.org/10.5753/ijcae.2018.4850Keywords:
OpenCL, Parallel programming, Parallel architectures, Heterogeneous computing, TeachingAbstract
This article presents an approach for teaching parallel programming in heterogeneous environments to be used in undergraduate computer science courses. The main objective of this approach is to enable a smooth transition from the sequential programming paradigm to parallel programming in heterogeneous environments, equipping undergraduate students to better extract performance from current architectures. The programming language used is OpenCL due to its high portability, being a free programming language standard, and for being a parallel programming language that allows the utilization of all resources of a heterogeneous architecture. The teaching approach is divided into two components, where the introductory component covers the main features of the OpenCL programming language, identifying hardware with OpenCL support in a heterogeneous environment, and setting up the development environment. The transition component consists of applications with increasing levels of complexity, aimed at providing practical teaching of parallel programming in heterogeneous environments.
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