HPC : New Gaming Summit @ APU13 + The Buzz About Mantle

Tuesday 22 October 2013

New Gaming Summit @ APU13 + The Buzz About Mantle


		Don’t Miss the AMD Gaming Summit @ APU13, Nov. 11-13 In just a few, short weeks, the AMD Developer Summit will feature the first-ever AMD Gaming Summit, showcasing the latest GPU and APU technologies and their use in next-generation gaming platforms. Keynote presentations include those by Dominic Mallinson, Vice President, Research & Development at Sony Computer Entertainment America; Johan Andersson, Technical Director at DICE/Electronic Arts, and Brendan Iribe, Chief Executive Officer at Oculus VR. Plus enter to win one of the latest game console system that uses AMD technology. Choose from Sony Playstation® 4, Microsoft Xbox® One or Nintendo Wii U™. (Conference registration not required. Read contest terms and conditions here.) Join us for the full conference, or choose a one-day pass. Register Now

AMD's Mantle: “Biggest [Gaming] Industry Upheaval in a Decade”
Mantle is a new, low-level, high performance, console-style graphics API. Charlie Demerjian of SemiAccurate calls Mantle “the biggest [Gaming] industry upheaval in a decade.” Jason Evangelho of Forbes says “Mantle is a rally cry from AMD to developers, and a crucial consideration for PC gamers choosing their next graphics card.” See what the excitement is about in these articles from AnandTech, Eurogamer and PCWorld.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About HSA*
What is Heterogeneous System Architecture? Why does it matter? In this whitepaper, Insight 64 Research Fellow Nathan Brookwood explains why, even if HSA doesn’t entirely change your life, it will change the way you use your desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone and the cloud.

New 3D GPU Documentation
Check out these new programming guides and register specifications for the 3D engine here. These documents bring AMD’s public 3D documentation up to date with all currently released asics. Developers on both Hacker Newsand reddit.com/r/programming/‎ discussed this documentation & other related topics.


		HSA Platform Coherency and SoC Verification Challenges AMD's Pankaj Singh will be presenting "HSA Platform Coherency and SoC Verification Challenges" at this year's SC13 conference, which is being held Nov. 17-21 in Denver, CO. The presentation will discuss how the support for coherent shared memory across CPU-GPUs has been implemented, new design features in the first implementation of a critical feature of HSA and how verification was achieved for this complex design.


		“AMD Aims To Give OpenGL A Big Boost, ‘API Won’t Be The Bottleneck’” DSOGaming captures an interesting Twitter conversation with AMD’s Graham Sellers and other developers about OpenGL extensions in their article “AMD Aims To Give OpenGL a Big Boost, ‘API Won’t Be The Bottleneck’”. Read John Papadopoulos’ coverage and the corresponding discussion on reddit.com/r/programming/‎.
		International Workshop on OpenCL sets date for 2014 Conference in England The International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL) is an annual meeting of OpenCL™ users, researchers, developers and suppliers. Their second annual conference is scheduled for May 12-13, 2014 in Bristol, England.Technical sessions reflecting OpenCL on PC, HPC, embedded, mobile and web-based platforms are expected. For more information, visit the IWOCL site.

Training	Date	Location
OpenCL™ Programming Course by Acceleware	October 22-25, 2013	Houston, TX
OpenCL™ Programming Course by AccelerEyes	October 23-24, 2013	Atlanta, GA
OpenCL™ Programming Course by AccelerEyes	November 6-7, 2013	Washington, DC

Don’t miss some of the last OpenCL™ training sessions of the year!

Interested in profiling OpenCL™kernels that are launched from a Python script? Check out the discussion Profiling PyOpenCL application on the AMD Developer forums for several options.

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