AMD APARAPI - expressing data parallel workloads in Java

[Stefan]

Aparapi is an API for expressing data parallel workloads in Java and running those workloads on a compatible GPU if possible. Where your workload actually ends up running depends on

    * whether you have the ATI Stream SDK installed
    * whether you have a compatible GPU
    * whether your Java parallel code avoids any constructs that would make it untranslatable to OpenCL™. These restrictions are detailed in the Aparapi Readme file.

If your code and your target platform meet all of the above, Aparapi will translate your workload to OpenCL™ and will run your workload on the GPU. Otherwise, your same code will still run as a parallel workload using a Java Thread Pool and will be able to take advantage of multiple cpu cores if you have them.