BEAVERTON, OR–(Marketwired – January 26, 2017) – The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation together with Foundation member AMD will be providing a half-day tutorial entitled, ‘Updates in Heterogeneous Compute’ at the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO). The conference will be held from Feb. 4-8 in Austin, TX.
CGO provides a venue to bring together researchers and practitioners working at the interface of hardware and software on a wide range of optimization and code generation techniques and related issues. The conference spans the spectrum from purely static to fully dynamic approaches, and from pure software-based methods to specific architectural features and support for code generation and optimization.
The half-day tutorial will be presented by AMD Fellow Paul Blinzer on Sunday, Feb. 5, at 1:15 PM in Room 616B. Blinzer’s talk will provide insight into the latest developments in hardware and software for heterogeneous compute, a solution required for a growing number of applications including vision based IoT systems, mobile devices, desktops, high-performance computing (HPC) systems, AR/VR environments, and servers.
The talk will include updates on HSA, a standardized platform design supported by more than 40 technology companies and 23 universities that unlocks the performance and power efficiency of the parallel computing engines found in most modern electronic devices.
The tutorial and other CGO sessions will be held at the Hilton hotel, 500 East 4^th St., Austin. For more information, including a full list of speakers, supporting organizations and sponsors, as well as registration information, please visit: http://cgo.org/cgo2017.
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.
About Paul Blinzer
Paul Blinzer works on a wide variety of Platform System Software architecture projects and specifically on the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) System Software at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) as a Fellow in the System Software group. Living in the Seattle, WA area, during his career he has worked in various roles on system level driver development, system software development, graphics architecture, graphics & compute acceleration since the early ’90s. Paul is the chairperson of the “System Architecture Workgroup” of the HSA Foundation. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing) from TU Braunschweig, Germany.
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TU Darmstadt and FAU Researching, Developing HSA-Compliant Technologies
BEAVERTON, OR – Dec. 6, 2016 – The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation has expanded its Academic Partnership Program with the addition of two new HSA Academic Centers of Excellence – Technische Universitaet (TU) Darmstadt, and Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU), both in Germany. The universities will undertake critical research that will help to further proliferate HSA platforms.
HSA is a standardized platform design 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—including CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, FPGAs, fabrics and fixed function accelerators—in today’s complex systems-on-chip (SoCs).
“Both TU Darmstadt and FAU are working on a number of innovative HSA projects that will have significant impact not just in the academic community, but also potentially for large-scale commercial use, particularly in data center settings,” said HSA Foundation President Dr. John Glossner.
The Embedded Systems and Applications Group (ESA) of TU Darmstadt (Germany), headed by Professor Andreas Koch, is working with the HSA Foundation to explore how reconfigurable computing (specifically via Field-Programmable Gate Arrays or FPGAs), can be employed in processing units within the HSA framework.
“Our collaboration with the HSA Foundation is enabling us to make excellent progress on research topics that would have been extremely difficult to tackle without the additional insight provided by the industry partners. We look forward to advancing the architecture of heterogeneous computers for both academic as well as industrial use-cases,” said Professor Koch.
According to FAU Professor Dietmar Fey, the Department of Computer Science is currently focusing on integrating image processing accelerators in an FPGA and developing an HSA compliant interface. FAU is also collaborating on HSA technology with TU Darmstadt’s Embedded Systems and Applications Group; and is working on a technical prototype with HSA Foundation members.
“Our Academic Center of Excellence relationship is now having a significant impact – we’re now able to reach out to many industrial partners and work with them in establishing a standardization for heterogeneous computing platforms. It’s now becoming possible to combine fundamental research from a university with real world industry architectures and applications,” said Professor Fey.
“Professor Koch and Professor Fey have extensive experience in heterogeneous platform architecture design,” noted Paul Blinzer, a Fellow in the Systems Software group at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). “Their participation in Heterogeneous System Architecture will advance state-of-the art research in heterogeneous systems.”
Last month the HSA Foundation announced the first Academic Center of Excellence at Northeastern University in Boston. To learn more about engaging with the HSA Foundation on academic programs, contact academic@hsafoundation.com.
About TU Darmstadt
TU Darmstadt was founded in 1877. In 1882, the university established the first chair in Electrical Engineering worldwide. The university is a member of TU9, an alliance of leading institutes of technology in Germany. TU Darmstadt offers a comprehensive spectrum of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs, with a focus on the natural and engineering sciences. The university, which also hosts two Fraunhofer Institutes, performs world-class research and actively collaborates with academic and industrial partners nationally and internationally.
About FAU
Founded in 1743, FAU is a research university with an international perspective and one of the largest universities in Germany, with 40,174 students, 256 degree programs, 4,000 academic staff (including over 647 professors), and 500 partnerships with universities all over the world. FAU’s outstanding research and teaching is reflected in top positions in both national and international rankings, as well as the high amount of DFG funding which its researchers are able to secure.
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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BEAVERTON, OR, Aug. 13, 2016 – The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation and Foundation member AMD will be providing a tutorial on HSA technologies at next month’s 25th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Architectures (PACT). The conference will be held from Sept. 11-15 in Haifa, Israel.
PACT brings together researchers from architecture, compilers, applications and languages to present and discuss innovative research.
The one-day tutorial, presented by AMD Fellow Paul Blinzer will have a morning session on Platform and Hardware requirements; the afternoon session will focus on Software and Toolchains. A snapshot on some of the topics:
Platform and Hardware Requirements

• Rationale for HSA: GPUs, DSPs and more;
• Architecture pillars of HSA
• Memory model of HSA
• HSAIL, Finalizer, BRIG
• Integration of HSA platform features
• System architecture research opportunities

Software and Toolchains

• HSA software toolchains: LLVM, GCC, HCC, Python
• Integrating HSAIL into a new toolchain, experiences and gotcha’s using BRIG, HSAIL, code generation, debugging metadata
• Debugging, profiling an HSA-enabled application using these toolchains with CodeXL or gdb
• Application frameworks using HSA/ROCR: CAFFE, SPARK, node.js
• HSA tool extension for ROCm and CodeXL
• Software models, research opportunities

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—including CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, FPGAs, fabrics and fixed function accelerators—in today’s complex systems-on-chip (SoCs).
The tutorial and other PACT sessions will be held at the Dan Carmel hotel in Haifa.
For more information on the tutorial and to register, please see http://pactconf.org/program/workshops-tutorials/hsa/
For more information, including a full list of speakers, supporting organizations and sponsors please visit: the PACT 2016 conference.
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.
About Paul Blinzer
Paul Blinzer works on a wide variety of Platform System Software architecture projects and specifically on the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) System Software at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) as a Fellow in the System Software group. Living in the Seattle, WA area, during his career he has worked in various roles on system level driver development, system software development, graphics architecture, graphics & compute acceleration since the early ’90s. Paul is the chairperson of the “System Architecture Workgroup” of the HSA Foundation. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing) from TU Braunschweig, Germany.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-blinzer-4523602
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Beaverton, Oregon, June 17, 2016 – The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation today released a new infographic entitled, ‘HSA FOUNDATION, Harmonizing Hardware & Software Design for a Connected Future’. The infographic details why heterogeneous architectures are important for future electronic systems, and looks ahead at how heterogeneous architectures benefit end users.
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—including CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, FPGAs, fabrics and fixed function accelerators—in today’s complex systems-on-chip (SoCs).
“We created the new infographic based on a survey of the HSA Foundation members, many of whom are designing, programming or delivering a wide range of heterogeneous systems – including those based on HSA. As such, it provides insight into key issues and trends affecting these systems that power the electronic devices across every aspect of our lives,” said Dr. John Glossner, HSA Foundation president.
To access the infographic, visit www.hsafoundation.com/infographic.
 
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. See: http://www.hsafoundation.com/
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Leavitt Communications
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neal@leavcom.com