Par4All, source-to-source transform targeting CUDA, openCL, etc. It uses the PIPS code transformation framework.

Domain-Specific Languages for Heterogeneous Computer Platforms, a talk by Pat Hanrahan.

Courses of SIGGRAPH 2010 available.

The program of PACT 2010 available.

Some benchmarking for CrossFire and SLI.

New version of CUVIlib was released. New functions are added.

Some interesting papers:

• Edge and line oriented contour detection: State of the art, a survey on contour detection, in Image and Vision Computing 2010, from University of Groningen.
• Improved 3D Reconstruction in Smart-Room Environments using ToF Imaging
• Data locality and parallelism optimization using constraint-based approach
• Open-hardware e-puck Linux extension board for experimental swarm robotics research
• Network-on-chip architectures for neural networks
• Landmark detection and localization for mobile robot applications: a multisensor approach
• Efficient FPGA implementation of homodyne-based time-of-flight range imaging

Back from vacation.

Some interesting articles from CACM sept 2010:

• Thinking clearly about performance, part 1, how the “Oracle tuning” works.
• Confronting the myth of rapid obsolescence in computing research, not to ignore “old” literature.

Working long hours is stupid, by Daniel Lemire.

Proceeding of ISCAS 2010 available.

Visual Control of Robots Using Range Images, in Sensors 2010. A 3D time-of-flight (ToF) camera is used.

Some interesting papers from Computer Journal:

• Design of On-Chip Crossbar Network Topology Using Chained Edge Partitioning
• Corrigendum: Example-Based Regularization Deployed to Super-Resolution Reconstruction of a Single Image

Drag-and-Drop vs. HDL?. It predicts, in a few years, people will not write HDL in practical projects.

Programmable Fabrics and Spatial Compilers (Loki), led by Robert Mullins in the computer architecture group of Cambridge.

Journal of Real-Time Image Processing has a special issue on improving display and rendering technologies for virtual environments:

• A real-time low-cost marker-based multiple camera tracking solution for virtual reality applications
• Rendering techniques for mixed reality
• Real-time optical markerless tracking for augmented reality applications

Some recent papers in Journal of Real-Time Image Processing:

• Real-time detection of colored objects in multiple camera streams with off-the-shelf hardware components
• Fast recursive grayscale morphology operators: from the algorithm to the pipeline architecture

A Field Programmable Gate Array-Based Reconfigurable Smart-Sensor Network for Wireless Monitoring of New Generation Computer Numerically Controlled Machines, in Sensors 2010.

FeedNetBack, a FP7 project on networked control systems.

cuvilib, CUDA vision and imaging library.

Predictive design space exploration using genetically programmed response surfaces, from Kevin Skadron’s group, in DAC’08. Analytical model is derived from heuristics, in contrast to the principle component analysis used by the ocelot people.

FPGA infrastructure for the development of augmented reality applications, in 2007.

dSPACE, hardware and software solutions for control.

Towards the classification of algorithmic skeletons, in 1996.

Factored Operating System (fos), OS support for parallel and heterogeneous architecture, from the carbon group.

Axel: a heterogeneous cluster with FPGAs and GPUs, from Wayne Luk’s group, in FPGA’10.

Quantifying Effective Memory Bandwidth of Platform FPGAs, in FCCM 2007.

External Memory Controller for Virtex II Pro, in ISSOC 2006.

HybridOS: runtime support for reconfigurable accelerators, in FPGA 2008.

A Massively Parallel FPGA-Based Coprocessor for Support Vector Machines, in FCCM 2009. An SIMD friendly implementation of SVM.

Efficient External Memory Interface for Multi-Processor Platforms Realized on FPGA Chips, in FPL 2007.

Efficient use of communications between an FPGA’s embedded processor and its reconfigurable logic, in FPGA’06.