Thread-local memory reference promotion for translating CUDA code for execution by a general purpose processor

A non-transitory computer-readable medium that includes instructions that, when executed by a general purpose processor, configure the general purpose processor to promote thread-local memory references of application program as part of translating the application program for execution by a general purpose processor, by performing the steps of:

• receiving the application program written using a parallel programming model for execution on a multi-core graphics processing unit;
• partitioning the application program into regions of synchronization independent instructions to produce a partitioned application program;
• identifying a thread-local memory reference of the partitioned application program that contributes to a result of a first vector statement in the partitioned application program;
• and promoting the thread-local memory reference to a vector reference to produce a translated application program.

A computing system configured to promote thread-local memory references of application program as part of translating the application program for execution by a general purpose processor, comprising:

• a processor configured to execute a translator;
• and
• a system memory coupled to the processor and configured to store the translator, a first application program, and a second application program,
• the first application program written using a parallel programming model for execution on a multi-core graphics processing unit,
• the second application program configured for execution by the general purpose processor, and
• the translator configured to:
• receive the first application program;
• partition the first application program into regions of synchronization independent instructions to produce a partitioned application program;
• identify thread-local memory references of the partitioned application program that contribute to results of vector statements in the partitioned application program;
• and
• promote the thread-local memory references to vector references to produce a translated application program as the second application program.