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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:47:40 +0200 From: Eyal Rozenberg <eyal...@technion.ac.il> To: Haifux Mailing List <hai...@haifux.org> Subject: [Haifux] Khronos Tel-Aviv chapter kick-off event Hello all, (While this is not Haifa-related it is FOSS-related, and there's no similar activity around Haifa, so I'm allowing myself to post here.) Last month we heard from Shachar Raindel speak about using GPUs for packet filtering. To program GPUs for general-purpose computing work one typically uses either the proprietary and closed-source NVIDIA-only CUDA ecosystem, or the FOSS OpenCL ecosystem. OpenCL is an initiative of a consortium called the Khronos group[1]. It is used not just for GPUs, but also to utilize GPU parallelism (multi-core and SIMD instructions), as well as for other kinds of hardware (e.g. FPGAs and at some point possibly Xeon Phi). Anyway, a Tel-Aviv chapter of Khronos is forming, with a kick-off event at the Temple Bar in Cinema City Glilot: http://www.meetup.com/Khronos-Tel-Aviv-Chapter/events/169536192/ If you have interest in GPGPU programming, close-to-the-metal programming, heterogeneous computing, and such - this might be relevant to you. Also, the chapter may cooperate with the Haifa Linux club in certain ways in the future, although this is pure speculation as it is just forming and I'm not heading it. Eyal Disclosure: I am not associated with the Khronos group, but I do work for a company which does research for Hua Wei, one of the less-active Khronos members. And Ofer the chapter leader is a co-worker of mine. [1] : http://www.khronos.org/ _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list hai...@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/ George: I guess you can enter now. I’m just following orders. SGlau: The Nuremberg defense! George: This place gives you no other option. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Summerschool-at-the-NSA/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Discussions mailing list Discussions@hamakor.org.il http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
