Events
2008 Schedule
Macworld Conference and Expo
January 15-18 in San Francisco, CA
Booth 4354 in the Mascone West Hall
Visit RapidMind to learn how RapidMind’s software solution allows companies to take advantage of the unparalleled performance gains offered by multi-core Mac hardware. RapidMind’s Multi-core Development Platform has been shown to achieve a 10x performance improvement on third-party Adobe® Photoshop® effects, providing desktop publishing and photo and video editing software vendors with a significant competitive advantage.
2008 Non-conventional Computing Conference
Feb 6-7 in Orlando, FL
The NCCC is a gathering of Engineering and Business leaders from across Lockheed Martin and GE focusing on emerging, disruptive, high performance and innovative computing and computing architectures.
HPC Horizons Summit
March 11-13 in Palm Springs, CA
The HPC Horizons Community is a collaborative group of executive thought-leaders from industry who are pushing the envelope of high productivity computing. The HPC Horizons Community is facilitated by an annual series of HPC Horizons Summits, and an online web presence that is hosted in conjunction with HPCwire. RapidMind will be participating in Community Action Groups discussing various aspects of HPC technology and industry trends.
Multicore Expo
April 1-3 in Santa Clara, CA
This conference addresses the challenges of multi-core by gathering the leading industry technology experts to provide insight into how to leverage the potential of multi-core architecture. Please join RapidMind for the following talks and panel discussions:
- Engineering Key Note:: “A Unified Programming Model for Multi-Core CPUs and Many-Core Accelerators” by Dr. Michael McCool, RapidMind Chief Scientist
Tuesday April 1st at 10:30 AM - Panel Discussion: “Enabling Multi-Core Development” with Ray DePaul, RapidMind President and CEO
Wednesday April 2nd at 10:10 AM - Panel Discussion: “The Problems With Today’s Parallel Programming Models” with Dr. Michael McCool, RapidMind Chief Scientist
Thursday April 3rd at 11:10 AM - Engineering talk:: “High-Level Programming of Many-Core Processors” by Dr. Michael McCool, RapidMind Chief Scientist
Thursday April 3rd at 1:00 PM
NAB2008
April 14-17 in Las Vegas, NV
Booth 13813
From Hollywood to Bollywood, Beijing to Buenos Aires, Cannes to Cape Town, Montreal to Mexico City, and Sydney to St. Petersburg, the global community of content professionals converges at the NAB Show – uniting the creative process with the converging technologies, harnessing the promise of state-of-the-art concepts and equipment to power the future of content creation, management and delivery.
Join RapidMind and Masstech Group, Monday April 14th in the Masstech booth (SU13813) where they announced Masstech’s unique transcoding technology which, combined with RapidMind’s Multi-Core Development Platform, fully leverages multi-core processors and accelerators providing vast improvements in speed and cost for video transcoding. This powerful technology, which combines Masstech’s transformation software MassTransIt™ with the use of the RapidMind platform, is part of the growing trend of broadcasters using off-the-shelf hardware instead of traditionally premium-priced proprietary equipment.
SIFMA Technology Management Conference & Exhibit
June 10-12 in New York, NY
Booth 1742
SIFMA’s 28th Annual Technology Management Conference & Exhibit is the industry’s leading event with over 300 vendors and 7,000 attendees. The conference will address the rapidly-changing world of technology and how the financial industry is using technology to drive productivity, comply with regulatory requirements, and adapt to converging markets, products and investors.
The Need For Speed: How to use Multi-core Architectures to Improve Application Performance
A SD Times Magazine Webinar
Thursday, June 26, 2008, 1:00p.m. EDT / 10:00 a.m. PDT
Moderator: P.J. Connolly, Executive Editor, SD Times
Speaker: Dr. Michael McCool, Chief Scientist, RapidMind
Multi-core processors present significant potential for performance gains in software applications. Multi-core enabled applications increase speed, functionality and performance. High performance parallel computation can be applied to a large number of applications, but among the most compelling are those in the medical industry.
Learn how Dartmouth Medical School and other medical imaging companies harness the full power of multi-core processing, thereby making significant differences in the cost, quality, and even kinds of health care that can be provided.
SIGGRAPH
Aug 12-14 in Los Angeles, CA
Booth 761
The 35th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.
High Performance on Wall Street
Sep 22 in in New York, NY
Booth 221
2008 High Performance on Wall Street focuses on those technologies that underpin the high frequency and volatile trading environment of today’s financial markets.
Supercomputing
November 17-20 in Austin, TX
Booth 2221
The SC Conference is the premier international conference for high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis. SC08 marks the 20th anniversary of the first SC Conference, then called Supercomputing, held in Orlando, Florida in 1988.
Exhibitor Forum Tech Talk: RapidMind: A Unified Programming Model for Multi-core CPUs and Many-core Accelerators
Tuesday November 18 at 2:30pm in Room 19A/19B
Join Dr. Michael McCool as he explores the benefits of the SPMD stream parallel processing model and demonstrates how developers can express computations using the RapidMind Multi-Core Development Platform API in their C++ compilers, IDEs, debuggers, and build systems. Dr. McCool will explore how the embedded interface approach used by RapidMind also makes it possible to use the modularity of C++ to structure computations but to eliminate the runtime expense of this modularity. In addition to specific algorithmic examples, he will also demonstrate how to use the platform to turn interpreters into compilers, enabling the rapid development of domain-specific languages. Various test cases, benchmarks, and applications will also be discussed.