AMD Fusion Developer Summit: Call for Presentation Proposals

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40652374

SUNNYVALE, CA — Today the AMD (NYSE: AMD) Fusion Developer Summit conference board issued a call for presentation proposals from software development leaders in heterogeneous and GPU computing. The inaugural AMD Fusion Developer Summit (AFDS) will be held June 13-16, 2011 in Bellevue, Washington. Presentation proposals must be submitted by February 4, 2011, and all proposals will be reviewed by a conference board composed of researchers, academics and practitioners in the field. Selected candidates will be notified by March 16, 2011.

AFDS will gather developers, academics and emerging innovators who are developing next-generation software. The summit will provide software developers with an opportunity to learn more about Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) technology and programming methodologies using industry-standard application programming interfaces (APIs) such as OpenCL™, OpenGL™ and Microsoft DirectCompute, among others. During the AMD Fusion Developer Summit, participants will engage in interactive sessions and hands-on labs to learn more about APU features and deepen their knowledge of advanced parallel processing programmability.

Call for Presentation Proposals
AMD invites pioneers of next-generation software and the rapidly growing field of heterogeneous computing to share their work and research findings in the form of presentations based on the latest technical papers or reports. Presenters will have an opportunity to advocate new methodologies and paradigms, garner support for industry standards, and network with developers, innovators and academics who will help define the course of this technology.

Speakers will receive free conference admission, three nights of compensated hotel accommodations, and an invitation to a VIP Speaker Event. Presentation proposals are invited on the following topics:

* Multimedia
* Content Management
* User Interface
* Web
* Security
* Server and Datacenter
* High Performance Computing
* Programming Models
* Tools

The AMD Fusion APU is a unique and ideal development platform based on industry-standard APIs and programming languages, combining sequential style programming on the most widely used processor technology, the x86 architecture, with parallel programming on GPU architecture. APUs are expected to enable users to experience things that were not possible previously on PC form factors, including superior Internet, video and gaming experiences.

The roadmap for the AMD Fusion family is expected to deliver industry-leading parallel computing power in 2011, and continue to lead with ever greater performance in subsequent generations. AMD today offers multiple teraflops of computing performance in its discrete family of GPUs.

AMD also intends to bring to market its next-generation server processors, codenamed "Bulldozer," during 2011. Offering up to 16 cores per processor, Bulldozer will offer developers a computational platform for exploiting the world of large scale-out clusters, including the web-based transactional environments of cloud computing clusters and computationally demanding high-performance clusters.

It would be interesting to see what the ratio of Server vs Client proposals ends up for this event?

On the client side:

Will Ontario/Zacate in Cheap Windows 7 Starter machines (10.1" and 1 GB restriction) attract great interest from developers? Or will the rise of ARM powered Tablets (dual core A9, 1 GB) damper some of the enthusiasm?

On the server side:

Large Clusters or small home server based cloud operations?
 

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ATI Stream SDK 2.3 has just been released with support for Ontario/Zacate.

http://developer.amd.com/gpu/atistreamsdk/pages/default.aspx

What’s New in ATI Stream SDK 2.3

Improved OpenCL runtime performance:
Improved kernel launch times.
Improved PCIe transfer times.
Enabled DRMDMA for Evergreen GPUs, as well as AMD Radeon™ HD 6870 and AMD Radeon™ HD 6850 devices.
Increased size of staging buffers.
Enhanced Binary Image Format (BIF).
Support for UVD video hardware component through OpenCL (Windows 7).
Support for Northern Islands family of devices.
Support for AMD Radeon™ HD 6310 and AMD Radeon™ 6250 devices.
Support for OpenCL math libraries: FFT and BLAS-3, available for download at AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing Math Libraries.
Preview feature: An optimization pragma for unrolling loops.
Preview feature: Support for CPU/X86 image. This enables the support for Image formats, as described in the Khronos specification for OpenCL, to be run on the x86 CPU. It is enabled by the following environment variable in your application: CPU_IMAGE_SUPPORT.
ATI Stream Profiler 2.1 enhancements:
Timeline visualization and API Trace.
Support for 64-bit profiling.
Support for Linux (command line version).
Support for profiling DirectCompute applications.
Stream KernelAnalyzer (SKA) 1.7 enhancements:
Support for Northern Islands devices.
Support for Catalyst 10.9 to 10.12.
New samples:
MonteCarloAsianDP
DeviceFission
FluidSimulation2D
Optimized Histogram sample.
 

IntelUser2000

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Will Ontario/Zacate in Cheap Windows 7 Starter machines (10.1" and 1 GB restriction) attract great interest from developers? Or will the rise of ARM powered Tablets (dual core A9, 1 GB) damper some of the enthusiasm?

I don't think it'll be much of an overlap. The operating systems are different, the performance is different, the capabilities are different. They probably will create a market all special to them.
 

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I don't think it'll be much of an overlap. The operating systems are different, the performance is different, the capabilities are different. They probably will create a market all special to them.

When you say "create a market all special to them" what do you mean?

Maybe a shift of certain productivity apps out of the Windows Ecosystem?

(For example) Lots of times I see "photo editing" and "video editing" mentioned for GPGPU. Even though I don't use these programs at the moment I would imagine being able to do this on a smaller lower cost machine (with lower cost programs) could be a real boon to consumers. (especially younger ones just learning how to operate software).
 
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When you say "create a market all special to them" what do you mean?

Maybe a shift of certain productivity apps out of the Windows Ecosystem?

(For example) Lots of times I see "photo editing" and "video editing" mentioned for GPGPU. Even though I don't use these programs at the moment I would imagine being able to do this on a smaller lower cost machine (with lower cost programs) could be a real boon to consumers. (especially younger ones just learning how to operate software).

He's talking about fusion market and tablets and smart phones market, not about windows.
 

IntelUser2000

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Maybe a shift of certain productivity apps out of the Windows Ecosystem?

Maybe. From your post

On the server side:
Large Clusters or small home server based cloud operations?

You didn't mention anything specific about windows, just the platforms. Just like how Cloud and non-cloud systems will continue to co-exist due to each offering advantages and disadvantages unique to each other, Ontario and A9 chips are different enough to be complementary, rather than being a replacement.

Maybe the answer to the question is just a simple "yes".
 

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I brought up Windows 7 Starter in the opening post because it is a secondary device OS (in the same way a Tablet contains a secondary device OS)

I am really interested to see how developers will target these secondary devices for software development. Quite surprising to me last night was seeing a good number of content creation apps already appearing on smaller Arm devices such as iphone 4 in the form of "iMovie" video editing, etc.

That leaves some questions:

1. What type of consumer would choose a Brazos Windows 7 Starter netbook over ARM Tablet SOC and why?

2. How would this affect AMD's OpenCL software strategies?
 
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