AMD is allocating a limited number of free passes (200 to be exact) for Seattle-area Computer Science and Engineering students. I’ve provided some background on the upcoming AMD Fusion Developer Summit below for your review. Also please see the special student registration code (see highlighted section).
AMD Delivers New Era of Computing at AMD Fusion Developer Summit.
AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) technology is rapidly redefining what is possible at every level of the computing experience. APUs give software developers the power to unleash their imaginations and access new revenue opportunities by creating futuristic, visually rich applications with no-compromise performance even on the small form factor devices users want.
The AMD Fusion Developer Summit (Fusion 11), June 13-16 at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington, is the must-attend event in 2011 for expert hands-on training and l informative sessions for professional developers like you need to capitalize on the full capabilities of APU technology takes place at. Space is limited.
AMD’s next-generation APU technology delivers benefits that enable developers to push their innovations to never before possible levels of performance outside the world of supercomputers and data centers, while delivering new levels of efficiency.
APU technology offers technologists:
4x faster performance than the competition
500 gigaflop performance at never experienced before efficiency levels
Supercomputer-like performance never before possible on smaller form factors
True all-day battery life of up to 11 hours1
Video and graphics that are more life-like than ever
A dramatic reduction of up to 40 percent in total carbon emissions over the life of the APU2
The ability to preserve your expensive source code investment and is easier to code when combined with OpenCL™
“There is a sizable opportunity for programmers who can exploit heterogeneous architectures that perform a mix of parallel and serial computation. Such architectures make use of readily available industry languages to unleash the power of tightly linked CPUs and GPUs in blended designs like AMD’s accelerated processing unit (APU),” said Roger Kay, Founder and President, Endpoint Technologies.
Industry leaders from AMD, ARM, Corel, and Microsoft are coming to the AMD Fusion Developer Summit to share their latest innovations during the AFDS Keynotes.
In his keynote “Heterogeneous Parallelism at Microsoft” Herb Sutter, Microsoft Principal Architect of Native Languages, showcases upcoming innovations to bring access to increasingly heterogeneous compute resources directly into the world’s most popular native languages.
Jem Davies, ARM Fellow and Vice President of Technology, Media Processing Division, delivers a keynote about ARM’s long history of heterogeneous computing, its future strategy, and ARM’s support of standards.
The Summit opens and closes with keynotes by senior AMD tech leaders. AMD Corporate Fellow Phil Rogers explores the programmer’s guide to APUs, and Eric Demers, AMD Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Graphics, will deliver a keynote that chronicles the evolution of AMD’s graphics cores and discuss next-generation AMD graphics technology.
Training at AFDS includes more than 90 technical sessions, covering such topics as mitigation of legacy applications to heterogeneous architectures, simplified CPU-GPU logical data sharing, OpenCL™, multicore, and GPU accelerated databases.
Technology topics at AFDS include:
Developer Tools: This topic covers development tools ranging from compilers and debuggers to performance visualization tools. Sessions cover the state of the art in compiler technology (CPU and GPU), debugging and profiling OpenCL™, and automatic data movement.
Enterprise Computing: This topic features sessions that discuss using multicore technology to handle large data, showcase software being developed today utilizing multicore CPUs, and show early work of applying the data parallel capabilities of GPUs to databases.
High Performance Computing: This topic presents a sampling of portable and standards based heterogeneous computing. Come see innovative uses of GPUs, extreme optimizations, power efficient implementations, benchmarks, libraries, and real world applications in physics, chemistry, finance, and rendering.
Multimedia Processing: This topic features sessions on image processing, audio processing, video processing, telepresence, video quality enhancement, computer vision, transcoding, content recognition, image retrieval, multimedia algorithm optimization for parallel processing, codecs.
Professional Graphics & Visual Computing: This topic provides sessions focused on various areas of visual computing, including mixed-mode OpenGL/DX/OpenCL™ interoperability, and advanced rendering and compute techniques.
Programming Models: This topic showcases the state of the art in parallel programming models and techniques for heterogeneous platforms. Topics covered include: programming models for next generation GPU architectures and techniques for building domain specific languages on heterogeneous platforms.
Security: This track features sessions on password recovery and audit, encryption, and steganography detection.
User Interface and Media Experiences: This topic features sessions on gesture recognition, touch recognition, face recognition, UIs for new user experiences, video management, video playback, and Web user experiences.
In addition to the technical sessions there are seven Pre-Summit Tutorials (Monday, June 12, 2011) and hands-on labs.
For more information about AMD Fusion Developer Summit and to register, visit amd.com/afds. The first 200 students to register using the SDC200 code will be able to attend the event for free.