The final REPHRASE workshop is underway at HiPEAC 2018! Come and join us for a fantastic day of papers and talks.

HLPGPU: High-level Programming for Heterogeneous and Hierarchical Parallel Systems
Organizers: Adam Barwell (University of St Andrews), Christopher Brown (University of St Andrews), Jose Daniel Garcia (University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M)), Kevin Hammond (University of St Andrews)

Event: 2018 Manchester Conference (Jan. 23, 2018)
​HLPGPU aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to present new results and ongoing work on those aspects of high-level programming relevant, or specific, to GPGPUs and new architectures.

• Adaptation to heterogeneous/hierarchical platforms: GPGPU, multicore, FPGA etc.
• Adaptation of cluster- and grid- performance models to new platforms.
• Programming experiments and applications of heterogeneous/hierarchical platforms with a view on high-level programming methods.
• Algorithmic skeletons, design patterns for heterogeneous/hierarchical platforms.
• Domain-specific parallel patterns
• Efficient implementations of parallel patterns on multicore systems
• Mapping patterns to heterogeneous multicore systems
• Exploiting performance information to guide pattern Implementation
• Pattern implementations using application-specific information
• Refactoring tools and techniques for parallel patterns
• Tools and systems to aid pattern-based parallel programming
• Structured parallel programming models
• Heterogeneous computing
• Feedback-directed compilation
• Timing analysis tools and techniques
• Statistical performance modelling and prediction

Come along and see our stand at HiPEAC in Manchester today and tomorrow. Try out the paraformance tool and book yourself in for a free trial and demo.

The shortlist of academic entrepreneurs in the 2017 Converge Challenge competition include representative from 12 of Scotland's 19 universities and research institutes, with a further increase in the number of female finalists.

The full list of finalists are:
Converge Challenge - Holly Butler, ClinSpecDx, University of Strathclyde; Dave Hughes, Novosound, University of the West of Scotland; Douglas Martin, MiAlgae, University of Edinburgh; Des Gibson, SpectralSense, University of the West of Scotland; Deborah Wake, MyWayDigitalHealth, University of Dundee; Phil McFarlane, Scoop Analytics, University of Glasgow; Corien Staels, Staels Design, University of Glasgow; Andrew Herbert, Invizius, University of Edinburgh; Christopher Brown, ParaFormance, University of St Andrews; and Rotimi Alabi, RAB-Microfluids, University of Aberdeen.

Read more here

http://www.insider.co.uk/news/2017-converge-challenge-finalists-announced-11048267

ParaFormance is now available on the Visual Studio market place!

For more information, visit:

http://www.paraformance.com

​https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-1480854.ParaFormance

Chris Brown and Kevin Hammond at The University of St Andrews made it to the top 10 of the prestigious Converge Challenge competition for budding business entrepreneurs! Their business plan for ParaFormance (www.paraformance.com) was picked out of over 200+ submissions from startups and entrepreneurs in Scotland.

Marco Aldinucci of the University of Torino is to give the Keynote talk at a EuroPar workshop 2017, entitled Auto-Dasp. More details can be found at http://calvados.di.unipi.it/auto-dasp-17/index.php/program/

The Rephrase project showcases its ParaFormance technology in the latest HiPEAC magazine. For more information about ParaFormance visit www.paraformance.com or contact chris@paraformance.com.

https://www.hipeac.net/assets/public/publications/newsletter/hipeacinfo50.pdf

Evgueni Kolossov, of PRQA, UK, gave an interview at the latest Embeded World Trade Fair in Nuremberg, Germany, in March 2017. 

The intervew is published, and available here:
​
http://electronics-know-how.com/article/2466/securely-connecting-the-embedded-world
https://player.vimeo.com/video/209717181