Many-Core Levels (MCL) is a framework that allows one to write computational kernels for different kinds of many-core hardware. It consists of two languages: a hardware description language HDL and a programming language MCPL. HDL allows one to define hardware with different levels of detail, which results in different abstraction levels. MCL defines a hierarchy of hardware descriptions, starting with hardware description perfect. Each lower-level hardware description defines many-core hardware in more detail. MCPL allows one to write computational kernels that are mapped to hardware by specifying which hardware description is targeted and by using constructs that define a mapping between algorithm and hardware. For more details, refer to [1].

MCL is licensed under the GPL version 3.

Copyright 2018 Pieter Hijma

• Pieter Hijma - pieter@cs.vu.nl
• Ceriel Jacobs - ceriel@cs.vu.nl

Affiliation: VU University Amsterdam, Department of Computer Science.

[1] Pieter Hijma, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Ceriel J.H. Jacobs, and Henri E. Bal: Stepwise-refinement for Performance: a methodology for many-core programming Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 27: 4515–4554. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.3416.