Offloading Java to Graphics Processors
Peter D. Calvert · 2011
Massively-parallel graphics processors have the potential to oer high performance at low cost. However, at present such devices are largely inaccessible from higher-level languages such as Java. This work allows compilation from Java bytecode by making use of annotations to specify loops for parallel execution. Data copying to and from the GPU is handled automatically. Evaluation showed that signicant speedups could be achieved (up to 180 ), that were similar to those claimed by other less-automated work.