Fwd: Fw: [Haifux] Khronos Tel-Aviv chapter kick-off event

[Shlomi Fish]

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From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:44 PM
Subject: Fw: [Haifux] Khronos Tel-Aviv chapter kick-off event
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:47:40 +0200
From: Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz at technion.ac.il>
To: Haifux Mailing List <haifux at 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/
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