Heterogeneous System Architecture

Speaker:        Phil Rogers
                AMD Corporate Fellow
                President, HSA Foundation

Title:          "Heterogeneous System Architecture"

Date:           Friday, 17 April 2015

Time:           3:00pm to 4:30pm

Venue:          Lecture Theater E, HKUST

Abstract:

Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation is a not-for-profit
industry standards body focused on making it dramatically easier to
program heterogeneous computing devices. The consortium comprises various
software vendors, IP providers, and academic institutions and develops
royalty-free standards and open-source software.

The HSA Foundation members are building a heterogeneous compute software
ecosystem built on open, royalty-free industry standards and open-source
software:  the HSA runtimes and compilation tools are based on open-source
technologies such as LLVM and GCC.

The HSA Foundation seeks to create applications that seamlessly blend
scalar processing on the CPU, parallel processing on the GPU, and
optimized processing on the DSP via high bandwidth shared memory access
enabling greater application performance at low power consumption. The HSA
Foundation is defining key interfaces for parallel computation utilizing
CPUs, GPUs,  DSPs, and other programmable and fixed-function devices, thus
supporting a diverse set of high-level programming languages and creating
the next generation in general-purpose computing.


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Biography:

Phil Rogers, AMD Corporate Fellow, and President, HSA Foundation, is the
lead architect for the Heterogeneous System Architecture. He is channeling
his expertise in designing highly efficient GPUs to drastically reducing
the power consumed when running modern applications, on heterogeneous
processors. After joining ATI Technologies in 1994, Phil served in
increasingly senior architecture positions in the development of DirectXR
and OpenGLR software. Phil was instrumental in the development of all of
ATI Radeon GPUs since the introduction of the Radeon series in 2000. Phil
joined AMD with the ATI acquisition in 2006 and has played a lead role in
heterogeneous computing, APU architecture and programming models during
his tenure at AMD. Phil began his career at Marconi Radar Systems, where
he designed digital signal processors for advanced radar systems. Phil
earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic and Electrical
Engineering from the University of Birmingham.