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

[Johannes Doerfert via llvm-dev]

You should be able to add the meeting to your calendar with this link:

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_f5cpcv8upnjksh60vb16kf7hik%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FToronto

(Note that the one I send in the other email was broken.)

~ Johannes


On 1/10/22 12:37, Tian, Xinmin wrote:
> Yes, sounds a good idea.  Did you or Jakub send out meeting invite?
>
> Thanks,
> Xinmin
>
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> From: Johannes Doerfert <johannesdoerfert at gmail.com>
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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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