Michael Wong from Codeplay Software and Hal Finkel from Argonne National Library have opened up the ‘Distributed and Heterogeneous Programming in C++ for HPC’ BOF to questions from the internet. If you have a related question you would like to ask, please post it here.

Khronos made videos of three presentations from Codeplay at the Khronos Booth. The videos cover “Heterogeneous C++ dispatch: Comparing SYCL to HPX, KoKKos, & Raja, “Khronos SYCL Parallel STL Open-source Project” and “Getting Your Hands on SYCL Using the ComputeCpp Community Edition”

Researchers from the University of Warwick’s Performance Computing and Visualization Department and Oxford University’s eResearch Centre have put together a study: should we install a GPGPU-based system or a more traditional IMB Blue Gene-like supercomputer? The team’s research will present their work at the 1st International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computing Systems at the SC10 conference in New Orleans. The Khronos Group will be at Booth # 1132 at SC10.

Vincent Hindriksen, owner of StreamComputing will be speaking at the Thalesian seminar on the Usability of OpenCL for Financial Computations. The meetup will be held in Canary Wharf, London, at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, 27th October, 2010. Founded in 2008. the Thalesians are a think tank of dedicated professionals with an interest in quantitative finance, economics, mathematics, physics, computer science, and synergetics.

The Khronos Groups OpenCL API was awarded Editor’s Choice Award this week, by HPCwire, at SC09. Every year at the Supercomputing Conference, HPCwire announces their Annual Readers and Editors Choice Awards. Hosted in Portland, Oregon in its 21st year, SC is recognized as the premier international conference on High Performance Computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis.

The Khronos Group will be demoing OpenCL at their booth at SC09 in Portland Oregon. This year, the Khronos Group is pleased to hand out a free, nicely-laminated OpenCL Quick Reference card to SC09 booth visitors. This comprehensive 6 page quick reference covers all important aspects of the OpenCL API. A complete schedule of Khronos events at SC09 is located on the Khronos Group SC09 event page, along with a signup form for guests. Space is limited, so please signup early to reserve your spot.

Fixstars Corporation, a pioneering company in multi-core solutions announced that it has launched an OpenCL software service. Fixstars provides various services to develop software based on parallel computing framework which has high portability for HPC, desktop and embedded application developers.