Our managing director, Vincent Hindriksen, is in San Francisco’s Bay Area from Saturday 11th up to Thursday 16th of August 2018. He’ll be visiting existing customers, but there is time left.
Current schedule (excluding several unconfirmed meetings):
- Saturday: social meetups
- Monday: full
- Tuesday: all day good availability,
- Wednesday: all day good availability
- Thursday: morning good availability
Do you want to learn more about GPUs and how we can help you get there? Get in touch via our contact-page, and tell us address and time when you want to meet.
If you seek a job in GPUs, also get in contact! Stream HPC is growing quickly now, and a good moment to onboard and still make a difference. For job-talks also the evenings are available.
In many hard sciences focus is on formulas and text, whereas images are mainly graphs or simplified representations of researched matters. Beautiful visualisations are mainly artist’s impressions in popular media targeting hobby-scientists. When Cyrille Favreau made the first good-working version of his real-time GPU-accelerated raytracer, he saw potential in exactly this area: beautiful, realistic visualisations to be used in serious science. This resulted in software called IPV.
Some weeks ago we started with implementing the Compiler Test Suite for OpenCL 2.2. The biggest improvement of OpenCL 2.2 is C++ kernels, which originally was planned for 2.1. SPIRV 1.1 is another big improvement.
In the past years we have been translating several types of software to AMD, targeting OpenCL (and HSA). The main problem was that manual porting limits the size of the to-be-ported code-base.
HTML5 has the future, now Flash and Silverlight are abandoning the market to make the way free for HTML5-video. There is one big problem and that is that it is hard to protect the content – before you know the movie is on the free market. DRM is only a temporary solution and many times ends in user-frustration who just want to see the movie wherever they want.
Aparapi is an open source framework used to write OpenCL-code in Java. It translates Java byte-code into OpenCL for AMD GPUs and all CPUs to get much faster performing code. Furthermore, Aparapi is also quite a fit for existing code (*). And there’s more: Since late 2011, a stable version is being released and new features have been introduced.
This means that with an interest in AI, embedded programming and sensors, you’re all set.
StreamHPC has consulted at various small and big financial institutes to improve the performance of their software: From optimising databases and computations to introducing modern hardware solutions such as FPGAs and GPUs.
We worked for fintech company Tempus energy to speed up their forecasting software to run under a minute. This speedup was necessary for them to improve their computational model so they could better serve their customers.
Vincent Hindriksen will be walking around at ISC from 20 to 22 June. With me I bring our latest brochure, some examples of great optimisations and some Dutch delicacies. Also we will also have some exciting news with an important partner – stay tuned!
It takes quite some effort to program FPGAs using VHDL or Verilog. Since several years Intel/Altera has OpenCL-drivers, with the goal to reduce this effort. OpenCL-on-FPGAs reduced the required effort to a quarter of the time, while also making it easier to alter the specifications during the project. Exactly the latter was very beneficiary when creating the demo, as the to-be-solved problem was vaguely defined. The goal was to make a video look like a cartoon using image filters. We soon found out that “cartoonized” is a vague description, and it took several iterations to get the right balance between blur, color-reduction and edge-detection. 
ZiiLabs has been offering an early access program for 
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One of the world’s most used software is far from performance optimised and there is hardly anything we can do about it. I’m talking about Excel.
