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Hwu, Wen-Mei W. Hwu, Wen-Mei W. Johnson, Ralph E. Hart, John C. Wah, Benjamin W. Lumetta, Steven S. Bray, Nicholas C. 2010-08-20T18:00:52Z 2010-08-20T18:00:52Z 2010-08-20T18:00:52Z 2010-08 Abstract Graphics processing units (GPUs) have tremendous computing power, but are hard to program. Most GPU programming languages are extremely low level; no one has run a general-purpose high-level language on a GPU. This dissertation shows how to run Python shaders on a GPU for real-time rendering. Shaders written in Python run 30,000 - 300,000 times faster than on a CPU. This is partly because GPUs are designed to run shaders and partly because of the design of PyStream, a Python compiler for the GPU. PyStream advances the state-of-the-art in pointer analysis for Python, eliminates abstraction overhead for Python, maps a language with references onto an architecture that does not support references, and uses a single code base to program both the CPU and GPU. PyStream points the way for running high-level languages on specialized architectures. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2010-07-13T19:21:59Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Bray_Nicholas.pdf: 2521724 bytes, checksum: 866761770a40caff1f2be23f15b635ad (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2010-08-20T18:00:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Bray_Nicholas.pdf: 2521724 bytes, checksum: 866761770a40caff1f2be23f15b635ad (MD5) license.txt: 4061 bytes, checksum: 5f8947d30a9f0f9cb00bf951ac47c289 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/16886 en Copyright 2010 Nicholas C. Bray Python Graphics Processing Units (GPU) Real-time Rendering Compiler Pointer Analysis PyStream: Python Shaders Running on the GPU Electrical & Computer Eng 1933 Electrical & Computer Engr 1200 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Electr & Computer Eng-UIUC 10KS1200PHD