alpaka - An Abstraction Library for Parallel Kernel Acceleration

The alpaka library is a header-only C++17 abstraction library for accelerator development. Its aim is to provide performance portability across accelerators through the abstraction (not hiding!) of the underlying levels of parallelism.

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alpaka - How to Read This Document

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Basic

• Introduction
• Installation
• Code Example
• Abstraction
• Library Interface
• Cheatsheet

Advanced

• Rationale
• Mapping onto Specific Hardware Architectures
• CMake Arguments
• Compiler Specifics

Extra Info

• Similar Projects

Development

• Back-ends
• Details
• Coding Guidelines
• Sphinx
• Automatic Testing
• API Reference

Indices and Tables

• Index

• Search Page