High-level stream parallelism abstractions with SPar targeting GPUs

The combined exploitation of stream and data parallelism is demonstrating encouraging performance results in the literature for heterogeneous architectures, which are present on every computer systems today. However, provide parallel software efficiently targeting those architectures requires significant programming effort and expertise. The SPar domain-specific language already represents a solution to this problem providing proven high-level programming abstractions for multi-core architectures. In this paper, we enrich the SPar language adding support for GPUs. New transformation rules are designed for generating parallel code using stream and data parallel patterns. Our experiments revealed that these transformations rules are able to improve performance while the high-level programming abstractions are maintained.