[llvm-dev] Should we have a "GPU working group"?

[Tian, Xinmin via llvm-dev]

Yes, sounds a good idea.  Did you or Jakub send out meeting invite? 

Thanks,
Xinmin

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Subject: Re: Should we have a "GPU working group"?

The first meeting is scheduled for this Friday.

Please see: 
https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2022-January/154618.html


On 11/10/21 14:56, Johannes Doerfert wrote:
> Hey,
>
> We nowadays have various "working groups" that meet regularly to 
> discuss technical topics (incl. RISC-V, MLIR, OpenMP, Alias Analysis, 
> ML, Flang, ...).
> It's a reasonably nice way for people to connect and present ideas, 
> get feedback, etc. in an interactive environment.
> While the OpenMP meeting has a strong emphasis on offloading, we do 
> not meet to discuss "generic GPU" topics as a community.
>
> This email is to determine if people would be interested in meeting 
> once every N weeks (initially we could say 2) to coordinate efforts in 
> this space, e.g., development of GPU-specific optimizations, 
> organization of driver and backend code, dealing with issues like 
> convergent functions, ...
>
> I CC'ed a bunch of people that might want to join such a meeting but 
> certainly this is something everyone would be invited to and I hope 
> people forward this to parties that might not read llvm-dev.
>
> Looking forward to hear what people think :)
>
> ~ Johannes
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