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2007 Events

2007 International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO)
March 11-14, San Jose, CA

The International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) provides a premier venue to bring together researchers and practitioners working on feedback-directed optimization and back-end compilation techniques. The conference covers optimization for parallelism, performance, power, and security, where that optimization occurs in the mapping from an input (including APIs, high-level languages, byte codes such as .NET or Java, or ISAs) to a similar or lower-level target machine representation.

Multicore Expo
March 27-29, Santa Clara, CA

The only conference dedicated to delivering real developer solutions for Multicore and Multiprocessing designs.

March 26, 2007 – RapidMind demonstrates 8x performance increase on Intel® multi-core CPU

Please join Dr. Michael McCool, Chief Scientist, as he presents the following talks:

  • Key note: “The hardware is ready. Are you?” (March 27, 2007)
  • Engineering talk: “Addressing the challenges of programming multi-core processors” (March 28, 2007)

Embedded Systems Conference | Silicon Valley
April 1-5, San Jose, CA

ESC is a truly global technical conference bringing together the world's technology experts (faculty) from over 16 different countries. It provides in depth technical training for engineers relatively new to embedded design, all the way up to courses on cutting-edge technology applications and solutions for the most experienced designers.

HP-CAST
May 6-9, Karlsruhe, Germany

The Hewlett-Packard Consortium for Advanced Scientific and Technical (HP-CAST) computing users group works to increase the capabilities of HP solutions for large-scale, scientific and technical computing.

Please join Dr. Michael McCool, Chief Scientist, as he discusses how the RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform makes programming multi-core processors such as GPUs and the Cell BE™ as easy as single-threaded, single core programming, yet takes full advantage of the processor, achieving breakthrough performance.

Microsoft Tech-Ed
June 4-8, Orlando, FL

Booth 846

This year Tech-Ed 2007, Microsoft’s premier annual conference, focuses on newly released products such as Windows Vista, Exchange Server 2007, ASP.NET AJAX, and the 2007 release of Microsoft Office along with content about upcoming releases such as Windows Server code name “Longhorn”.

In-booth seminar: “Data Parallel Programming with RapidMind”
2:00 PM EDT daily, Monday, June 4, 2007 – Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Please join Dr. Michael McCool, Chief Scientist, as he discusses how the RapidMind platform makes programming multi-core processors such as GPUs and the Cell BE™ as easy as single-threaded, single core programming, yet takes full advantage of the processor, achieving breakthrough performance.

Best of Tech-Ed WinnerRapidMind Platform Wins Best of Tech-Ed 2007 Award
The RapidMind Platform was named as a “Best of Tech-Ed Awards 2007” winner in the Most Innovative Product category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro®, SQL Server Magazine® and Office & Sharepoint Pro.com.












Web Seminar (WebEx): Programming for Multi-core Processors with RapidMind

June 28 at 2:00 PM EDT

Join Stefanus Du Toit, Chief Architect at RapidMind, as he explores sample applications implemented using the RapidMind platform. This webinar is for developers who have little to no previous experience with the RapidMind Platform, but wish to understand the RapidMind API and platform:

  • Introduction the RapidMind platform
  • Overview of the architectural elements of the RapidMind platform
  • Introduction to the RapidMind API
  • Example usage of the API
  • Walkthrough of sample code implemented using the RapidMind platform

If you would like to view the recording of this event:

  1. Go to https://rapidmind.webex.com.
  2. Click “View Event Recordings” on the upper right corner of the screen.
  3. Select the event from the list.
  4. Click “Playback”.

Web seminar (Dr Dobb’s Portal): Multi-core CPUs, Accelerators, and the Many-core Future: A unified software approach with RapidMind

July 31, 2007 at 2:00 PM EDT

Join Dr. Michael McCool, Chief Scientist at RapidMind, as he demonstrates how the RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform unifies the software development process and programming model for a variety of processors, including multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and the Cell BE. The generally applicable, single-source solution provided by RapidMind makes heterogeneous multi-core development as easy as single-threaded, single-core programming. Applications built with the RapidMind platform are processor-independent, and they automatically scale to any number of cores. In addition, the RapidMind platform enables high programmer productivity: high-performance portable software can be created with an order of magnitude less effort than with traditional approaches.

Click here to view a recording of the web seminar.

SIGGRAPH
August 5-9, San Diego, CA

Booth 249

We invite you to join us as we demonstrate how organizations in the digital content, medical imaging and oil & gas industries are using RapidMind to leverage the tremendous performance capabilities of the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.) from IBM, GPUs from AMD® and NVIDIA®, and Quad-core CPUs from AMD® and Intel®.

RapidMind is pleased to host the following guest speakers at the RapidMind booth on Wednesday, August 8th:

  • “The Cell Broadband Engine for Digital Media”, Bruce D’Amora, IBM, Sr. Technical Staff Member, Emerging Systems Software
  • “AMD Acceleration Strategies”, Felipe Payet, AMD Acceleration Strategies
  • “Clustering the Cell for Digital Media”, Tim Wilcox, Terra Soft Solutions
  • “Mercury Cell-Based Hardware Platforms”, Robert Cooper, Mercury Computing Systems, Inc.
  • “Real-time, 3D visualization for the automotive, aerospace and consumer goods industries”, Jeroen Snepvangers, RTT USA

Tech Talk - “Multi-core CPUs, Accelerators, and the Many-core Future: A unified software approach with RapidMind”
Tuesday, August 7th at 1:00pm

Dr. Michael McCool, Chief Scientist at RapidMind, demonstrates how the RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform unifies the software development process and programming model for a variety of processors, including multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and the Cell BE. The generally applicable, single-source solution provided by RapidMind makes heterogeneous multi-core development as easy as single-threaded, single-core programming. Applications built with the RapidMind platform are processor-independent, and they automatically scale to any number of cores. In addition, the RapidMind platform enables high programmer productivity: high-performance portable software can be created with an order of magnitude less effort than with traditional approaches.

Click here to view a PDF version of the Tech Talk.

Web seminar (Dr Dobb’s Portal): Using the RapidMind platform to harness the Power of the Cell Broadband Engine™

August 28, 2007 at 2:00 PM EDT

Join Dr. Michael McCool, Chief Scientist at RapidMind, and Bruce D’Amora, Sr. Technical Staff Member, Emerging Systems Software at IBM as they discuss the Cell Broadband Engine and how the RapidMind multi-core software platform can simplify development of high-performing applications. An overview of the Cell B./E. architecture will be given along, programming models and a comparison of Cell vs. GPU from both a software and hardware perspective. Emphasis will be on how to use RapidMind to get the most from the Cell B./E and where the Cell B./E. is most likely to succeed, as well as specific application examples.

Click here to view the presentation.

Eurographics
September 3-7, Prague, Czech Republic

The Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics, EUROGRAPHICS 2007, will take place from the 3rd to the 7th September 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic. The conference location is the campus of the Czech Technical University in Prague. The event is organized by the Computer Graphics Group under auspices of the Mayor of the City of Prague, Dr. Pavel Bém.

Cell Broadband Engine Architecture Workshop

September 18-19, Toronto, ON

Need multicore performance? Want to learn a new and emerging technology and be an early evaluator? Join us for two days of technical training and explore the details of Cell BE programming with hands-on exercises. This workshop is for developers with advanced C and C++ skills who would like to experiment with the new Cell BE technology. It provides a comprehensive technical overview of the cell architecture, programming models, software development environment, cell-based blade server architecture and IBM offerings.

HPC on Wall Street

September 17, New York, NY

The event will bring together a world class faculty, including Wall Street practitioners and technology innovators to provide real-life insight into harnessing HPC technologies in today’s cost conscious business landscape. The 2007 High Performance on Wall Street will focus on the key HPC technologies - Grid, Cluster and Blade systems, Virtualization and Utility Computing and Low Latency Solutions - and how Wall Street and the financial markets are deploying them to meet the demands of extreme data rates, algorithmic trading, RegNMS and MiFID.

Terra Soft Hack-A-Thon II

September 22-25, Austin, TX

Hack-A-Thon II offers developers hands-on experience in coding for the Cell processor with experts from IBM, Mercury, and RapidMind at your side. No question is too dumb, no challenge too great. Bring a cluster application, optimism, and enthusiasm.

Workshop: Harnessing the Power the Cell Broadband Engine™ with RapidMind

September 27, San Jose, CA

This hands-on workshop, jointly sponsored by RapidMind and IBM, explores example applications leveraging the full performance potential of the Cell Broadband Engine using the RapidMind Multi-core Software Platform, and includes tutorials of the RapidMind API and platform.

Cell Broadband Engine Architecture Workshop

October 10-11, Waltham, MA

Need multicore performance? Want to learn a new and emerging technology and be an early evaluator? Join us for two days of technical training and explore the details of Cell BE programming with hands-on exercises. This workshop is for developers with advanced C and C++ skills who would like to experiment with the new Cell BE technology. It provides a comprehensive technical overview of the cell architecture, programming models, software development environment, cell-based blade server architecture and IBM offerings.

CASCON 2007

October 22 - 25, 2007, Toronto, ON

Dr. Michael McCool, Chief Scientist at RapidMind, will demonstrate how the RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform unifies the software development process and programming model for a variety of processors, including the Cell BE. The generally applicable, single-source solution provided by RapidMind makes heterogeneous multi-core development as easy as single-threaded, single-core programming. Applications built with the RapidMind platform are processor-independent, and they automatically scale to any number of cores. In addition, the RapidMind platform enables high programmer productivity: high-performance portable software can be created with an order of magnitude less effort than with traditional approaches.

HP-CAST 9
November 9-10, Reno, NV

The HP-CAST Users Group is an organization formed to increase the capabilities of HP’s high performance computing systems and to promote the exchange of information between HP’s customers and HP. This year’s fall meeting, HP-CAST 9, will have a specific focus on ADVANCES in MULTI-CORE TECHNOLOGIES, where speakers will address the new upcoming developments and challenges for system architects, software designers, programmers and users of HPC systems. In addition, the issue of MULTI-CORE TECHNOLOGIES vs. ACCELERATORS will be covered. Several tutorials, supported by the HP CCN group, will complement the conference part of HP-CAST 9.

Supercomputing (SC)
November 12-15, Reno, NV

Booth 342

SC07 is expanding the frontiers of HPC by challenging the combination of computation, networking, storage, and analysis and hosting an exceptional technical program, an expanded exhibits area, an exciting education program and much more.