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HSA Foundation President John Glossner Delivering Keynote at ARCS 2016

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NUREMBERG, GERMANY, March 29, 2016 – The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation announced that Foundation President Dr. John Glossner will deliver a keynote address at ARCS 2016 – International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, being held April 4-7 in Nuremberg, Germany. The focus of the 2016 conference will be on Heterogeneity in Architectures and Systems – from Embedded to HPC.
In his talk, Dr. Glossner will discuss the HSA computing platform infrastructure including features/advantages across computing platforms – from mobile and tablets to desktops to HPC and servers. The talk will also focus on technical issues solved by HSA technologies and important new developments that are bringing the industry closer to broad adoption of heterogeneous computing.
WHO:
The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation, a non-profit consortium of SoC IP vendors, OEMs, academia, SoC vendors, Operating System Vendors (OSVs) and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), whose goal is making programming for parallel computing easy and pervasive
WHAT:
HSA Foundation keynote: “Heterogeneous Systems Era” at ARCS 2016
WHEN:
Thursday, April 7, 9:30 AM (UTC+2)
WHERE:
ARCS 2016: Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
WHY:

  • Learn why we need to bring compute app portability to heterogeneous platforms
  • Glean more about the HSA vision – discover how devices, with the eventual adoption of heterogeneous computing, will be able to run applications at much higher performance and lower power
  • How HSA adds value to the SoC and the HSA ecosystem
  • How end users benefit from HSA

For more information about ARCS 2016, visit: www3.cs.fau.de/arcs2016.
About the HSA Foundation
The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation is a non-profit consortium of SoC IP vendors, OEMs, Academia, SoC vendors, OSVs and ISVs, whose goal is making programming for parallel computing easy and pervasive. HSA members are building a heterogeneous computing ecosystem, rooted in industry standards, which combines scalar processing on the CPU with parallel processing on the GPU, while enabling high bandwidth access to memory and high application performance with low power consumption. HSA defines interfaces for parallel computation using CPU, GPU and other programmable and fixed function devices, while supporting a diverse set of high-level programming languages, and creating the foundation for next-generation,  general-purpose computing.
Follow the HSA Foundation on Twitter.
Contact:
Neal Leavitt
Leavitt Communications
(760) 639-2900
neal@leavcom.com

HSA Foundation President John Glossner Delivering Keynote at WInnComm 2016

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RESTON, VA, March 8, 2016 –  The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation announced that Foundation President Dr. John Glossner will be delivering a keynote address at the Wireless Innovation Forum Conference on Wireless Communications Technologies and Software Defined Radio (WInnComm 2016), being held March 15-17 in Reston, VA. Dr. Glossner will share important new developments that are bringing the industry closer to broad adoption of heterogeneous computing. He will also elaborate on why HSA will be at the heart of the high performance and low power chipsets that will drive the next wave of wireless innovation.
WHO:
The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation, a non-profit consortium of SoC IP vendors, OEMs, academia, SoC vendors, Operating System Vendors (OSVs) and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), whose goal is making programming for parallel computing easy and pervasive.
WHAT:
HSA Foundation keynote: “Multicore Processors for Heterogeneous Systems Era.”
WHEN:
Wednesday, March 16, 8:40 AM EST
WHERE:
Sheraton Reston, Reston, VA.
WHY:

  • Learn why we need to bring compute app portability to heterogeneous platforms
  • Glean more about the HSA vision — discover how devices, with the eventual adoption of heterogeneous computing, will be able to run applications at much higher performance and lower power
  • How HSA adds value to the SoC and the HSA ecosystem
  • How end users benefit from HSA
  • What makes the HSA Intermediate Language (HSAIL) so unique
  • Get the latest HSA product updates from HSA Foundation member companies

About the HSA Foundation
The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation is a non-profit consortium of SoC IP vendors, OEMs, Academia, SoC vendors, OSVs and ISVs, whose goal is making programming for parallel computing easy and pervasive. HSA members are building a heterogeneous computing ecosystem, rooted in industry standards, which combines scalar processing on the CPU with parallel processing on the GPU, while enabling high bandwidth access to memory and high application performance with low power consumption. HSA defines interfaces for parallel computation using CPU, GPU and other programmable and fixed function devices, while supporting a diverse set of high-level programming languages, and creating the foundation for next-generation, general-purpose computing.

HSA Announces Publication of New Guide to Heterogeneous System Architecture

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AUSTIN, TX, Dec. 17, 2015 – The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation today announced publication of Heterogeneous System Architecture: A New Compute Platform Infrastructure (1st Edition), edited by Dr. Wen-Mei Hwu. The book, published by Elsevier Publishing (http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780128008010), offers a practical guide to understanding HSA, a standardized platform design that unlocks the performance and power efficiency of parallel computing engines found in most modern electronic devices.
“Heterogeneous computing is a key enabler of the next generation of compute environments, wherein entire systems will interconnect autonomously and in real time,” said HSA Foundation President Dr. John Glossner. “Developers who are skilled in the use of this platform will have the upper hand in terms of design time, IP portability, power efficiency and performance.”
To support these developers, the HSA Foundation working groups are rapidly standardizing tools and APIs for debug and profiling, creating guidelines for incorporating IP from multiple vendors into the same SoC, and much more. The Foundation released the v1.0 specification in March, and soon thereafter, companies including AMD, ARM, Imagination Technologies and MediaTek previewed their plans for rolling out the world’s first products based on HSA.
“The HSA guidebook will help proliferate the platform among students, programmers and developers worldwide,” said Dr. Hwu. “This publication will help them quickly learn more about HSA concepts, fundamentals, and practices, including techniques for creating virtual parallel systems, as well as compiling and simulating designs.”
Through the new book, software application developers, computer science researchers, and students in computer architecture, distributed computing, and software engineering courses will learn:

  • How performance-bound programming algorithms and application types can be significantly optimized by using HSA hardware and software features;
  • Ideal mapping of processing resources from CPUs to many other heterogeneous processors, in compliance with HSA specifications ;
  • Clear and concise explanations of key HSA concepts and fundamentals provided by expert HSA specification contributors.

The book begins with an overview of the evolution of heterogeneous parallel processing and its historic challenges. Later chapters provide a deeper perspective on topics such as runtime, memory model, queuing, context switching, the architected queuing language, simulators, and tool chains. The publication also includes three real world examples that clearly demonstrate how HSA can deliver significantly higher performance thru C++ based applications.
Contributing authors include HSA Foundation members and experts from both academia and industry. Some of these distinguished authors include: Yeh-Ching Chung, Benedict R. Gaster, Juan Gómez-Luna, Derek Hower, Lee Howes, Shih-Hao Hung, Thomas B. Jablin, David Kaeli, Phil Rogers, Ben Sander, I-Jui (Ray) Sung.
About the HSA Foundation
The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation is a non-profit consortium of SoC IP vendors, OEMs, academia, SoC vendors, OSVs and ISVs committed to making programming for parallel computing easy and pervasive. HSA members are building a heterogeneous computing ecosystem, rooted in industry standards, which combines scalar processing on the CPU with parallel processing on the GPU, while enabling high bandwidth access to memory and high application performance with low power consumption. HSA defines interfaces for parallel computation using CPU, GPU and other programmable and fixed function devices, while supporting a diverse set of high-level programming languages, and creating the foundation for next-generation, general-purpose computing. See: www.hsafoundation.com, also follow the HSA Foundation on Twitter.

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Dr. John Glossner Elected President of the HSA Foundation

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AUSTIN, TX, November 04, 2015 – The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation today announced that Dr. John Glossner has been named president. Glossner currently serves as CEO of General Processor Technologies.
The HSA Foundation has had from inception the vision of inclusive computing supporting processors beyond just CPUs and GPUs. The appointment of Glossner, with his background in heterogeneous DSP architectures, reaffirms HSA’s commitment to that vision. Glossner also previously served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Wireless Innovation Forum.
“I’m honored to help move the HSA Foundation toward the realization of our members’ shared vision of a unified heterogeneous system architecture,” said Glossner. “I look forward to working with all the member companies and appreciate their tremendous support for the Foundation.”
In addition to the appointment of a new Foundation president, there have been a number of other key developments this year. Last month the Foundation previewed several of its members’ plans for supporting HSA in their next-generation products. Products from AMD, ARM, Imagination Technologies and MediaTek will be the world’s first that are intended to support HSA and meet any customer-focused technology developed by HSA.
HSA is a standardized platform design that unlocks the performance and power efficiency of the parallel computing engines found in most modern electronic devices. To support these products, HSA Foundation working groups are standardizing tools and APIs for debug and profiling, creating guidelines for incorporating IP from multiple vendors into the same SoC, and much more. The Foundation also released the v1.0 specification in March.
About the HSA Foundation
The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation is a non-profit consortium of SoC IP vendors, OEMs, Academia, SoC vendors, OSVs and ISVs, whose goal is making programming for parallel computing easy and pervasive. HSA members are building a heterogeneous computing ecosystem, rooted in industry standards, which combines scalar processing on the CPU with parallel processing on the GPU, while enabling high bandwidth access to memory and high application performance with low power consumption. HSA defines interfaces for parallel computation using CPU, GPU and other programmable and fixed function devices, while supporting a diverse set of high-level programming languages, and creating the foundation for next-generation, general-purpose computing.
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HSA Foundation Members Preview Plans for Heterogeneous Platforms

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SANTA CLARA, CA, Oct. 6, 2015 – The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation today previewed several of its members’ plans for supporting HSA in their next-generation products. Products from AMD, ARM, Imagination Technologies and MediaTek will be the world’s first that are based on HSA, a standardized platform design that unlocks the performance and power efficiency of the parallel computing engines found in most modern electronic devices.
HSA allows developers to easily and efficiently apply the hardware resources in today’s complex systems-on-chips (SoCs). It will enable applications to run faster and at lower power across the range of computing platforms spanning mobile devices, desktops, high-performance computing (HPC) systems and servers.
Following the release of the v1.0 specification in March 2015, conformance tests are now available online to members who are testing their platforms in preparation for HSA certification. To support these products, HSA Foundation working groups are standardizing tools and APIs for debug and profiling, creating guidelines for incorporating IP from multiple vendors into the same SoC, and much more.
“These are exciting times for the industry as companies prepare to introduce the first HSA products,” said Greg Stoner, managing director of the HSA Foundation, and senior director, computing technology for AMD. “As we draw ever closer to pervasive adoption of heterogeneous computing, devices will be able to run applications at much higher performance and lower power, providing an opportunity for developers to create incredible new applications across computing platforms.”
“After the HSA’s successful release of the v1.0 specification in March 2015, the organization went to work on developing conformance tests,” said Dr. Jon Peddie of Jon Peddie Research. “Conformance testing is critical to a meaningful HSA certification, and now that is in place too. This firmly and permanently establishes the organization’s place in the industry.”
HSA Foundation members lay out their plans
AMD recently launched the world’s first processors designed to support the full set of HSA features with their SoC products targeting the desktop and laptop PC markets. “AMD is thrilled to be amongst the first companies shipping products designed to fully support the HSA Foundation standards with the introduction of the 6th generation A-series processor (code-named “Carrizo”),” said Stoner. “We see HSA as the right technical direction for the industry to fully utilize the capabilities of modern SoCs to deliver improved performance, power utilization and programmability.”
“As a founding member of the HSA foundation, ARM has worked with our fellow members to develop specifications that enable hardware and software to take advantage of both CPU and GPU compute,” said Jem Davies, vice president of technology, media processing group, ARM. “ARM is actively developing CPU, GPU and interconnect IP with energy efficiency and full system coherency as guiding design principles while extending the system capabilities aligned with HSA coherency standards.”
Imagination is planning a staged rollout of HSA across its processors starting in 2016. This includes MIPS I-class and P-class CPUs, PowerVR GPUs and HSA compliant fabric solutions. According to Peter McGuinness, director of multimedia technology marketing for Imagination, “Because it provides a consistent programming model and enables efficient execution on CPUs, GPUs and beyond, HSA is an important standard for future SoCs. Imagination has played a key role in developing the HSA specifications as a founder member of the HSA Foundation. HSA holds the promise of enabling developers to write software that makes the most of our future heterogeneous platforms targeting a range of devices including mobile and tablets, vision systems, automotive, and more.”
MediaTek is working with partners in developing HSA features on mobile SoCs. The company is already receiving interest in HSA from customers, and is on track to deliver HSA features in mobile SoC products in phases. “MediaTek is a firm believer in the value of heterogeneous computing and a strong supporter of the good work of the HSA Foundation. We are working to leverage this technology into our products to provide even better end user experience,” said Giri Amarakone, senior director, marketing and business development, MediaTek.
General Processor Technologies (GPT) is sponsoring an open source project to expand HSA tools support to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) by enabling HSA Intermediate Language (HSAIL) binary format (BRIG) translation for GCC. “We’re delighted to be involved in creating a foundational tools ecosystem for HSA. Through the project we’re sponsoring, heterogeneous processors may benefit from kernel agent support and the vector/SIMD optimizations in GCC,” said Dr. John Glossner, CEO of General Processor Technologies.
As companies roll out their HSA platforms, hardware and software learnings will be quickly integrated into the HSA specifications. The v1.1 specification will be available in the first quarter of 2016 and will be backward compatible with v1.0.
About the HSA Foundation
The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation is a non-profit consortium of SoC IP vendors, OEMs, Academia, SoC vendors, OSVs and ISVs, whose goal is making programming for parallel computing easy and pervasive. HSA members are building a heterogeneous computing ecosystem, rooted in industry standards, which combines scalar processing on the CPU with parallel processing on the GPU, while enabling high bandwidth access to memory and high application performance with low power consumption. HSA defines interfaces for parallel computation using CPU, GPU and other programmable and fixed function devices, while supporting a diverse set of high-level programming languages, and creating the foundation for next-generation, general-purpose computing.
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HSA Foundation Launches New Era of Pervasive, Energy-Efficient Computing with HSA 1.0 Specification Release

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SAN JOSE, California, March 16, 2015 – The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundationtodayannounced a major milestone with its release of the 1.0 HSA specification, which brings the technology industry one step closer to true heterogeneous computing on platforms spanning mobile devices, desktops, high-performance computing (HPC) systems and servers.
HSA is a standardized platform design supported by more than 40 technology companies and 17 universities that unlocks the performance and power efficiency of the parallel computing engines found in most modern electronic devices. It allows developers to easily and efficiently apply the hardware resources in today’s complex systems-on-chip (SOCs).
“Through HSA, we are working to ensure that end users of technology live in a world of new, incredible applications that run fast at low power,” said Phil Rogers, president of the HSA Foundation. “The Foundation members have been collaborating on this project since we joined together in June 2012, and we are thrilled to be delivering the fruit of that labor today.”
The newly-approved specification comprises the key elements that improve the programmability of heterogeneous processors, the portability of programming code and interoperability across different vendor devices. These include:

  • The HSA System Architecture Specification, which defines how the hardware operates;
  • The HSA Programmers Reference Manual (PRM), which targets the software ecosystem, tool and compiler developers;
  • The HSA Runtime Specification, which defines how applications interact with HSA platforms.

“HSA specification 1.0 includes several crucial features for efficient implementation of productive high-level languages, such as C++, Java and Python on heterogeneous computing hardware,” said Professor Wen-Mei Hwu, CTO, Multicoreware, and Professor, Computer Engineering, UIUC. “Such enhancement of programmability will make the benefit of heterogeneous computing available to mainstream, mobile and server applications.”
“HSA has been remarkably well accepted and supported,” added Jon Peddie, who heads Jon Peddie Research, a computer graphics market research and management consulting firm. “The specification has answered an obvious need in the industry, which is reflected in its growing membership.”
“Release of the new specification should help improve more power efficient computing performance across a wide array of computing platforms,” said Patrick Moorhead, who leads market research firm Moor Insights & Strategy. “I anticipate a lot of interesting use cases, from video chat apps and search to TV shows and movies. App developers should also find it easier to harness all of the processors together.”
The specification was officially launched today during the HSA 1.0 launch event held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. The event featured a panel discussion among HSA Foundation board members, including AMD, ARM, Imagination Technologies, LG, MediaTek, Qualcomm and Samsung. A developer panel of industry luminaries discussing software, the ecosystem and applications in the mobile, PC and HPC computing was also featured.
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Supporting Quotes
AMD
“HSA 1.0 is an idea whose time has come. It gives developers easier access to the power-efficient performance on today’s rich SoCs than ever before, freeing them to find creative solutions to compute’s toughest challenges. AMD intends to bring processors which incorporate the architecture described in the specification to market in 2015 and help lead the industry into the new era of heterogeneous computing.”
–Manju Hegde, corporate vice president, AMD
ARM
“Heterogeneous computing is playing an increasing role in system design. HSA systems will enable energy-efficient interoperation between multiple processor types to take full advantage of next-generation SoCs.”
– Jem Davies, vice president of technology, media processing group, ARM
Imagination Technologies
“The future of computing will be based around heterogeneous platforms, and software APIs will be essential in their creation. As a co-founder of the HSA Foundation, Imagination is pleased to have played a key role in developing the new specifications. These specifications will enable interoperability across devices, and will let developers write software that makes the most of future coherent heterogeneous hardware platforms that include our PowerVR GPUs and MIPS CPUs.”
– John Min, director of processor technology marketing, Imagination Technologies
LG Electronics
“HSA will address the current needs of efficient computing, enabling consumers to take full benefit of maximizing the overall performance in their smart devices. We are looking forward to enhancing our SoC technologies in the partnership with HSA.”
– SJ Choi, senior vice president, LG Electronics
MediaTek
“MediaTek has been leveraging heterogeneous computing resources available in SoCs, and was one of the first to productize mainstream heterogeneous applications, including 2D-to-3D, video face beautifier, video stabilization in MT6589 and stereo camera features in MT6785. HSA allows us to move to the next step of heterogeneous computing with the ease of conventional programming and superior power efficiency.”
– Giri Amarakone, senior director, marketing and business development, MediaTek
Qualcomm
“Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is developing new, low power, heterogeneous computing technologies for Qualcomm® Hexagon TM DSP, Qualcomm® AdrenoTM GPU and custom CPU micro architectures. We believe that application developers for mobile and “Internet of Everything” devices can deliver innovative experiences on Qualcomm® Snapdragon TM processors if certain aspects of heterogeneous computing are standardized. Together with operating system companies and various standards committees including the HSA Foundation, of which QTI is a founding member, we are collaborating with many industry players to help define open standards that are beneficial for these types of new opportunities.”
– Tim Leland, vice president of product management, Qualcomm Technologies Inc.
Samsung
“Samsung is pursuing the best products in the world, such as application processors and smart phones for the mobile market. Heterogeneous system architecture is a good candidate for building efficient systems and the release of the 1.0 HSA specification will help Samsung achieve its goals in a more efficient way.”
– Jay Kim, vice president, Samsung Electronics
About the HSA Foundation
The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation is a non-profit consortium of SoC IP vendors, OEMs, Academia, SoC vendors, OSVs and ISVs, whose goal is making programming for parallel computing easy and pervasive. HSA members are building a heterogeneous computing ecosystem, rooted in industry standards, which combines scalar processing on the CPU with parallel processing on the GPU, while enabling high bandwidth access to memory and high application performance with low power consumption. HSA defines interfaces for parallel computation using CPU, GPU and other programmable and fixed function devices, while supporting a diverse set of high-level programming languages, and creating the foundation for next-generation, general-purpose computing.
Contact:
Neal Leavitt
Leavitt Communications
(760) 639-2900
neal@leavcom.com
 

HSA Represents The Evolution of Computing

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  • HSA Represents The Evolution of Computing

    The announcement of the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation in June sparked an enormous amount of interest in HSA and what it means to the tech industry.  HSA defines interfaces for parallel computation utilizing CPU, GPU and other programmable and fixed function devices, and support for a diverse set of high-level programming languages, thereby creating the next foundation in general purpose computing.  More simply, HSA represents the latest step in an evolution that began roughly five years ago when the computing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) began to exceed that of the central processing unit (CPU).  Pure computing power, though, is not the only variable that matters in an overall computing experience, so HSA represents a lot more.
    Let me explain:  It turns out that a CPU is excellent in serial computations (solving a problem one piece at a time) and the GPU is excellent in parallel computations (dividing a problem into smaller ones and solving them simultaneously).  Other “hardwired” processing engines might do a single thing very well, like encoding / decoding of video or managing system security.  HSA defines interfaces for parallel computation utilizing CPU, GPU and other programmable and fixed function devices, and support for a diverse set of high-level programming languages, thereby creating the next foundation in general purpose computing
    With this understanding that different types of computation are best performed with different compute resources, let’s see what the future of computing might look like with HSA.
    AMD solved the first half of the equation for leveraging the GPU and CPU by putting them together on a single-chip called an accelerated processing unit, or APU. Being on the same chip allows computationally intensive tasks to be divided between the compute resources more efficiently, providing a better application experience to the end user.  To ensure users see a net benefit, software developers want the hardware to appear as a single processing unit – HSA is conceived to ensure there is no data transfer, thus eliminating delay while ensuring use by the appropriate resource.  This is where the relatively new programming models using DirectCompute, C++ AMP and OpenCL™ can help.
    Let’s take a quick look at each:
    DirectCompute: Part of Microsoft’s DirectX® collection of APIs, DirectCompute lets GPUs (whether on an APU or discrete) perform general computing parallel tasks beyond traditional graphics rendering and video processing.
    OpenCL™: Stands for Open Compute Language, and is a programming framework which offers a computing language based on C as well as an API.  With OpenCL™ you can leverage CPUs, GPUs, APUs (or even other types of processors) to accelerate parallel computations, this provides dramatic speedup for computationally intensive applications that work across devices and architectures. My colleague, Mark Ireton, wrote a recent blog post going into more depth, and there are also video overviews available on the AMD website: http://tinyurl.com/yemb266
    C++ AMP: (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) is a programming model that uses C++ programming language to exploit data parallelism.
    Now let’s say you are a developer trying to create a software application. Three criteria that might be important to you are:

    • You want to create code that runs on as many platforms as possible
    • You don’t want to learn new programming languages, or models
    • You want your code to be optimized so to run as fast and efficiently as possible

    DirectCompute, OpenCL™, and C++ AMP will all have various levels of success as development platforms for the above goals. For example DirectCompute is based on a Higher Level Shader Language (HLSL) which means that the number of developers that can use it is somewhat restricted, not to mention it is limited on which hardware supports it. OpenCL™ on the other hand is quite low level and could be more challenging for a C programmer than C++ AMP would be.
    Beyond the software programming model, HSA is also very closely tied to changes in hardware.  For AMD, making the GPU a true peer processor to the CPU with direct access by software is the ultimate goal.  Today, select AMD products feature C++ support for GPU Compute, IOMMUv2 (GPU can share system memory efficiently), and Bi-Directional Power Management between the CPU and the GPU. In the near future, memory efficiency will be improved because of: unified address space for CPU and GPU where the GPU uses pageable system memory via CPU pointers (i.e. GPU can have more memory by using virtual memory), and full coherent memory between CPU and GPU. Shortly after, we get to a GPU that looks more like the CPU through features such as GPU compute context switch, GPU graphics pre-emption (to allow critical applications to get access to the GPU with the lowest latency possible), and quality of service (proper prioritization of tasks).
    In conclusion, HSA takes a comprehensive view of computing architecture by defining the key elements hardware, software and programming languages so that the whole system is more efficient, powerful and easily accessible by mainstream programmers. AMD is committed to building HSA into its products, but we are also committed to sharing the basic architecture specifications and interfaces openly.  More information on how this will be accomplished is available from the HSA Foundation: www.hsafoundation.com

    Terry Makedon is a Product Marketing Manager at AMD. His postings are his own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites, and references to third party trademarks, are provided for convenience and illustrative purposes only.  Unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such links, and no third party endorsement of AMD or any of its products is implied.

AFDS Was Great Turn Out for Launch of the HSA Foundation

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We had a great turn out for the launch of HSA Foundation.  Also the HSA Foundation received some amazing feedback  from the press and analyst around the formation of HSA Foundation.  Most importantly we have had a very positive reception from industry and developer we really working on right problems and solving critical issue in today’s system..
Tom Malloy’s presentation really set up the day  with the need to address key issue in the system, drivers, and runtime to make it easier for broader class of programers to be able to solve the real problem and not get encumbared in bit banging the system for maximum performance. Phil Roger went back this year to look at real example where HSA can truely bring new levels of performance as well as performance per joule efficiency.
It is great to know  we are helping to bring better products to market that drive new levels of experience.  With HSA Foundation partners it will be ready from Deeply embedded systems, Smartphones,Tablets,Laptop, Desktops and Servers,  and will even scale all the way up to  HPC class Exaflop clusters.

  • The IP catalog they have available with the five founders is borderline staggering, and it will only get bigger. If the HSA Foundation hasn’t gotten a critical mass of coder interest too, it will soon. From here, it looks like AMD did the right thing for the right reason, don’t underestimate this one. – Charlie Demerjian, SemiAccurate
  • We have much more the learn about the HSA Foundation and its direction for the industry but we can easily say that this is probably the most important processor company collaboration announcement in many years. – Ryan Shrout, PC Perspective