by Michael Feldman, HPCWire
ARM Holdings, along with seven other academic and industrial partners, is ramping up a European research project designed to bring accelerator programming to mainstream developers. Known as CARP (Correct and Efficient Accelerator Programming), the effort is focused on developing hardware-independent programming tools around OpenCL, the industry standard parallel computing environment for GPUs and other accelerators.

CARP is aimed primarily at mobile and embedded applications, but given the program’s emphasis on power efficiency, performance, and hardware independence, the work should have some cross-over into high performance computing, especially in areas like medical imaging and other types of scientific visualization.

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