A Few of the Most Popular Models for Heterogeneous Parallel Programming

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 heterogeneous parallel programming, including OpenCL (Open Computing Language), CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture), OpenACC, OpenHMPP (Hybrid Multicore Parallel Programming), C++ AMP (accelerated massive parallelism), HPL (Heterogeneous Programming Library), etc.