Elektra 2008 Awards

I’m not long back from a trip to Munich, where I attended the European Electronics Industry Awards (Elektra 2008) dinner.  Codeplay were nominated for the Research and Development award, for our Sieve C++ Parallel Programming system.  We’ve been working hard on the Sieve system for almost 3 years now so were pleased to get nominated, and really delighted when we found out we won our category!

MRSN Accelerator workshop at Imperial

Hello. Perhaps I should introduce myself briefly before my first Codeplay post. My name is Paul Keir, and I'm working on an Ph.D. industrial CASE studentship investigating novel compiler optimisation and parallelisation techniques. I'm based at the University of Glasgow and my supervisor there is Paul Cockshott. My supervisor at Codeplay is Alastair Donaldson. Check out my fledgling home page at http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/people/personal/pkeir/.

Last week Imperial College London hosted the excellent FPGA, GPU, and Accelerator workshop, and I was lucky enough to attend. The workshop took place over the 17th and 18th of September, at their South Kensington Campus. Event organisation was managed by the EPSRC-funded Many-core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Network (MRSN).

Highlights from DEVELOP in Brighton

Colin Riley and I had a great time at DEVELOP last week, in extremely sunny Brighton.

Being a tools company, we sometimes feel slightly like outsiders at game-centric events, but this year’s DEVELOP had a good technical programme with plenty of programming talks to keep us interested.