About the Name

Aparapi is just a contraction of “A PARallel API”

However… “Apa rapi” in Indonesian (the language spoken on the island of Java) translates to “What a neat…”. So “Apa rapi Java Project” translates to “What a neat Java Project” How cool is that?

In the News

• GPU Acceleration of Interactive Large Scale Data Analytics Utilizing The Aparapi Framework
• “Aparapi: OpenCL GPU and Multi-Core CPU Heterogeneous Computing for Java” - Ryan LaMothe and Gary Frost - AFDS
• Performance Evaluation of AMD-APARAPI Using Real World Applications
• Aparapi: An Open Source tool for extending the Java promise of ‘Write Once Run Anywhere’ to include the GPU

Similar Work

• Peter Calvert’s java-GPU has similar goals and offers a mechanism for converting Java code for use on the GPU
• Check out Peter’s dissertation “Parallelisation of Java for Graphics Processors” which can be found here
• Marco Hutter’s Java bindings for CUDA
• Marco Hutter’s Java bindings for OpenCL
• Ian Wetherbee’s Java acceleration project - creates accelerated code from Java (currently C code and native Android - but CUDA creation planned)
• “Rootbeer: Seamlessly using GPUs from Java” by Philip C. Pratt-Szeliga