Library Interface

As described in the chapter about the Abstraction, the general design of the library is very similar to CUDA and OpenCL but extends both by some points, while not requiring any language extensions. General interface design as well as interface implementation decisions differentiating alpaka from those libraries are described in the Rationale section. It uses C++ because it is one of the most performant languages available on nearly all systems. Furthermore, C++11 allows to describe the concepts in a very abstract way that is not possible with many other languages. The alpaka library extensively makes use of advanced functional C++ template meta-programming techniques. The Implementation Details section discusses the C++ library and the way it provides extensibility and optimizability.

• Structure
• Interface Usage
• Rationale
• Details