Liquid Metal: Taming Heterogeneity • Stephen Fink • GOTO 2012

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2012 http://gotocon.com Stephen Fink - Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center ABSTRACT Future chips will feature heterogeneous architectures with multicores, graphics processors (GPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and various fixed function accelerators. This talk will present an overview of the IBM Liquid Metal project, which aims to bring the power of these heterogenous systems to mainstream programmers. We have developed a programming language called Lime, with first-class language constructs that unify several parallel programming paradigms. The Liquid Metal toolchain compiles Lime applications to run on a number of platforms, and the runtime transparently manages scheduling, communication, and task migration. https://twitter.com/gotocon https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConference http://gotocon.com #GOTOcon #GOTO #Programming #SoftwareEngineering Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1