Welcome

This meeting provides a forum for researchers working on GPU computing at all levels (high performance, general purpose, embedded) to come together to discuss the recent advances in the state of the art in GPU computing. The meeting will include presentations from both industry and academia, as well as two keynote talks. The morning will focus on high performance and general purpose GPU computing. The afternoon is devoted to the emerging world of embedded GPU computing.

Keynote/Invited Talks

Title: Fusion System Architecture: Hardware and Software Directions
Phil Rogers, AMD Corporate Fellow

It's a well-understood maxim in the technology industry that software and hardware must evolve in parallel. AMD introduced the world's first APU, combining different processing engines in single-chip combinations in January 2011. Using this approach, APUs strike a unique balance between the dimensions of performance, power consumption and price for a variety of applications. In this presentation, Phil Rogers will review AMD's architectural direction as well as AMD work to ease the programmer's access to this new level of compute horsepower and dramatically expand the processing resources available to modern applications.

About the speaker: Phil Rogers, AMD Corporate Fellow, is the lead architect for AMD Fusion System Architecture, focused on optimizing the APU for system power and performance, and enabling the software ecosystem for heterogeneous computing. Rogers joined AMD with the ATI acquisition in 2006, became an AMD Senior Fellow shortly thereafter, and was promoted to Corporate Fellow in 2007. Rogers was instrumental in the development of all of ATI Radeon[tm] GPUs since the introduction of the series in 2000.



Title: Developing Portable, High Performance Kernels with Microway's OpenCL Tools and Services
Michael Fried, GPGPU Unit Manager, Microway

This presentation will demonstrate how to optimizize GPU kernels utilizing state-of-the-art tools and techniques.

About the speaker: As GPGPU Business Unit Manager and resident GPU expert at Microway, Michael Fried works on OpenCL and CUDA development tools and assists customers with technical issues. Prior to joining Microway, he spent 8 years as a software design engineer at Microsoft, working on the Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 products in the PowerPoint and Office Graphics development teams.



Title: GPUs: A Disruptive Technology Goes Mainstream
Glenn Lupton, Technical Lead of the Accelerator Team


GPUs have gone from graphics cards used primarily for gaming to extremely powerful computational devices with the capabilities needed for demanding compute applications. The hardware and software infrastructure around these devices has been maturing as GPUs find their way into major industries and top spots in the TOP500 supercomputers. This presentation discusses the adoption of GPUs as computing devices and describes some of the efforts at HP to help bring GPUs into the mainstream of high-performance computing.

About the speaker: Glenn serves as the Technical Lead on the Accelerator Team at HP. In the past he has served as the Technical Director for the Advanced Visualization and Computing Division at HP. He was also a senior member of the Technical Staff at Compaq, and a Consulting Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation.

Other Invited Speakers

Robert Peloquin, Analog Devices, Senior Applications Engineer

Richard Jaenicke, AMD, Director of Embedded Client Computing

Daniel Ginsberg, Principal, UpSample Software

James Bergstra, Theano Project, Harvard University