HiPEAC is the conference on “High-performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers” to be held on 20 to 22 January in Berlin – tickets are still available, if you can spare three days. I (Vincent Hindriksen) would like to share the program I’m doing.
Edit: I met great people here and hope to see you next year (again).
It is about “Programmability Issues for Heterogeneous Multicores” (website, conference-page). I chose this, because I think this is an important subject as we move to a language we want to lay on top of OpenCL – how needs the perfect higher-level languegae look like?
Subjects:
Of course nice to see a big name in OpenCL here: Benedict Gaster. But look closely to all talk-titels and discover each is of interest to the GPU/Vector-programmer.
The next morning is reserved for “LPGPU Workshop on Power-Efficient GPU and Many-core Computing” (website, conference-page). I have been interested in the LPGPU-project and look forward to hear more – it has been organised by our friends at CodePlay who are focusing more on mobile since a while.
Subjects:
Noticed Imagination and Adapteva in the list? You see this workshop is more hardware-oriented. As I always say during trainings: architecture-knowledge is the foundation for GPU-programmers. It is also somewhat more academic, but then I’ll learn more things for the long term.
The “International Workshop on Adaptive Self-tuning Computer Systems” (conference-page) is about various ways of self-tuning. This is a change in my program, which luckily was possible. Self-tuning I find an uttermost important subject.
This is the most international speaker-list I saw. I wanted to make a lit and put “Adaptive OpenCL” on #1, but that would be only because I can nod a lot. I am happy I changed the program, as this list is very interesting for me (besides OpenCL professional, also a background in neural networks).
The last day is all for the “Joint ENCORE&PEPPHER Workshop on Programmability and Portability for Emerging Architectures” (website, conference-page). Like LPGPU two fantastic projects I want to hear all about.
Subjects:
First talk is hopefully not exactly the same as the day before, as the audience is completely different. Again academic many talks, so bringing my (paper) notebook, as I assume
At Wednesday evening you are welcome to meet other Khronos-technology developers at this Benelux-chapter meetup – open for developers from all countries, as there are not many chapters in Europe. This is not OpenCL only, but also OpenGL, OpenGL ES, WebGL, WebCL, COLLADA, OpenVG, OpenSL ES, OpenMAX AL, OpenMAX IL, EGL, StreamInput, OpenGL SC, OpenMAX DL, OpenKODE, OpenWF and OpenML.
Khronos Chapters are a new initiative. If you want to know more about it, come over and I’ll tell you everything.
Subject: H*ow can open standards better compete with closed formats?
When: Wednesday 23 January, around 19:00.Where: Location TBD.*
Ping me at vincent@streamhpc.com or +31645400456 (sms) if you would like to attend, so I can let you know when the location has been decided or something has changed.
But the conference is 3 days. I’m very happy to meet you in person to talk tech or projects. There are many possibilities to talk, like during the poster-session for the industry where StreamHPC will be presented (if not everything keeps going Murphy), and a social event. I also like to share notes and be kept informed about interesting talks I am going to miss.
If (mobile) internet is available, I will tweet during the workshops.