The Nessie Project

About

Nessie is a compiler for Guy Blelloch's Nesl language that generates CUDA code for running on Nvidia GPUs.

Support

The Nessie project is supported, in part, by National Science Foundation awards CCF-1446412 (Exploring the Foundations of High-Level Programming Models for GPUs) and CCF-1718540 (High-level Programming Models for GPUs).

People

The following people have contributed to the Nessie project:

• Lars Bergstrom (Mozilla Research)
• Advai Podduturi (IMSA)
• John Reppy (University of Chicago)
• Nora Sandler (University of Chicago)
• Joseph Wingerter (University of Chicago)

Papers

• λ_cu — An Intermediate Representation for Compiling Nested Data Parallelism
  By J. Wingerter
  Masters Paper, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, 2017.
• Nessie: A New NESL Compiler
  By N. Sandler
  Senior Honors Thesis, University of Chicago, 2014.
• Nested Data-Parallelism on the GPU
  By L. Bergstrom and J. Reppy.
  ICFP 2012, September 2012.