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[2015-10-29] Vis paper presented

Our VIS 2015 paper was presented; the slides are available. The new examples page at github documents how to build Diderot, and includes a growing number of heavily commented example programs.

[2015-07-15] Vis paper

Our paper Diderot: a Domain-Specific Language for Portably Parallel Scientific Visualization and Image Analysis was accepted for presentation at IEEE VIS 2015.

[2015-01-10] CPC paper

Presented the paper Bulk-Synchronous Communication Mechanisms in Diderot at the CPC 2015 workshop.

[2012-01-31] PLDI paper

Our paper Diderot: A Parallel DSL for Image Analysis and Visualization was accepted for presentation at PLDI '12.

[2011-09-19] Best poster award

Our poster Diderot: A Parallel DSL for Computing on Multi-Dimensional Tensor Fields won Best VIS Poster at VisWeek 2011.

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Diderot is a Parallel Domain-specific Language (PDSL) for image analysis and visualization. It is designed to support a class of algorithms that are programmed in terms of continuous scalar, vector, and tensor fields that are reconstructed from the image data. Diderot provides a high-level mathematical programming model for these algorithms, while also providing high-performance implementations on a variety of parallel hardware platforms.

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We thank NVIDIA for financial support and hardware donations, and AMD for hardware donations. Portions of this research were supported by National Science Foundation award CCF-1446412.