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GPU Programming in Rust: Implementing High Level Abstractions in a Systems Level Language

Eric Holk, Milinda Pathirage, Arun Chauhan, Andrew Lumsdaine, Nicholas D. Matsakis
School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
Workshop on High-level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS 2013), 2013

@article{holk2013gpu,

   title={GPU Programming in Rust: Implementing High Level Abstractions in a Systems Level Language},

   author={Holk, Eric and Pathirage, Milinda and Chauhan, Arun and Lumsdaine, Andrew and Matsakis, Nicholas D},

   year={2013}

}

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Graphics processing units (GPUs) have the potential to greatly accelerate many applications, and yet programming models still remain too low level. Many language-based solutions to date have addressed this problem by creating embedded domain-specific languages that compile to CUDA or OpenCL. These targets are meant for human programmers and thus are less than ideal compilation targets. LLVM recently gained a compilation target for PTX, NVIDIA’s low-level virtual instruction set for GPUs. This lower-level representation is more expressive than CUDA and OpenCL, making it easier to support advanced language features such as abstract data types or even certain closures. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach by extending the Rust programming language with support for GPU kernels. At the most basic level, our extensions provide functionality that is similar to that of CUDA. However, our approach seamlessly integrates with many of Rust’s features, making it easy to build a library of ergonomic abstractions for data parallel computing. This approach provides the expressiveness of a high level GPU language like Copperhead or Accelerate, yet also provides the programmer the power needed to create new abstractions when those we have provided are insufficient.
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