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| PLATINUM SPONSORS |
 Altera programmable solutions enable designers of electronic systems to rapidly and cost effectively innovate, differentiate and win in their markets. Altera offers FPGAs, SoCs, CPLDs, ASICs and complementary technologies, such as power management, to provide high-value solutions to customers worldwide. www.altera.com |
 AMD (NYSE: AMD) designs and integrates technology that powers millions of intelligent devices, including personal computers, tablets, game consoles and cloud servers that define the new era of surround computing. AMD solutions enable people everywhere to realize the full potential of their favorite devices and applications to push the boundaries of what is possible. www.amd.com |
 Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a world leader in 3G, 4G and next-generation wireless technologies. Qualcomm Incorporated includes Qualcomm’s licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of its patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of Qualcomm’s engineering, research and development functions, and substantially all of its products and services businesses, including its semiconductor business, QCT. For more than 25 years, Qualcomm ideas and inventions have driven the evolution of digital communications, linking people everywhere more closely to information, entertainment and each other. www.qualcomm.com |
| GOLD SPONSORS |
 Codeplay are internationally recognized experts in advanced optimizing technologies, compilers and programmable graphics. We have been providing acceleration solutions that optimize performance for graphics semiconductor designers and AAA game developers since 1999. In the semiconductor sector, Codeplay partners with leading chip manufacturers, helping them to exploit the full potential of their chipsets and accelerate time-to-market. Our high performance C/C++ compiler technology enables GPU product managers to bring breakthrough new technologies to their graphics processors, significantly reducing development time, costs and risks. Our compiler testing technologies enable the rapid testing of new compilers and languages, such as OpenCL and shader languages. And our expert compiler developers are ready to take on tough optimization and development projects, with years of experience working on graphics processor compilers. Codeplay’s consultancy services, optimization technologies and bespoke support enables semiconductor manufacturers and game developers to stay ahead in the continual race in both these competitive sectors, helping our customers set the standard for stunning graphics in visual computing and gaming. www.codeplay.com |
 Imagination Technologies – a global leader in multimedia, processor, communication and cloud technologies – creates and licenses market-leading processor solutions including graphics, video, vision, CPU and embedded processing, multi-standard communications, cross-platform V.VoIP and VoLTE, and cloud connectivity. These silicon and software intellectual property (IP) solutions for systems-on-chip (SoC) are complemented by an extensive portfolio of software, tools and ecosystems. Target markets include mobile phone, connected home consumer, mobile and tablet computing, in-car electronics, networking, telecoms, health, smart energy and connected sensors. Imagination’s licensees include many of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers, network operators and OEM/ODMs. Corporate headquarters are located in the United Kingdom, with sales and R&D offices worldwide. www.imgtec.com |
 Intel is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. www.intel.com |
| SILVER SPONSORS |
 The Khronos Group is a not for profit industry consortium creating open standards for the authoring and acceleration of parallel computing, graphics, dynamic media, computer vision and sensor processing. OpenCL 2.0 is the latest significant evolution of the OpenCL standard, designed to further simplify cross-platform programming, while enabling a rich range of algorithms and programming patterns to be easily accelerated. As the foundation for these increased capabilities, OpenCL 2.0 defines an enhanced execution model and a subset of the C11 and C++11 memory model, synchronization and atomic operations. www.khronos.org |
| SPONSORS |
 Auviz Systems provides Middleware IP for the Data Center and Internet of Things. Auviz Systems empowers software and hardware developers through IP and services. Auviz IP delivers higher performance, greater productivity with targeted performance optimizations. Initially targeting FPGA’s, Auviz Middleware IP enables cross platform portability while delivering higher performance per watt. www.auvizsystems.com |
 hpgu.org tracks technical submitted papers on OpenCL as well as providing a rich set of resources on the applications, hardware, programming and tools for High performance computing on graphics processing units (GPU): AMD/ATI, nVidia, Intel Xeon Phi, etc. www.hgpu.org |
 StreamComputing assists R&D and product-development departments with OpenCL trainings and software development. They have actively supported many companies in their steps into a faster GPU-computing. The five most targeted hardware platforms in these projects have been AMD Radeon/FirePro, NVidia GeForce/Tesla, Intel/AMD X86 CPUs, ARM MALI and Imagination PowerVR. Their most popular services are training in Europe in OpenCL implementation/optimisation, CUDA-to-OpenCL translation and porting code to other hardware. Find out how they can help your company as well by visiting their booth at IWOCL. www.streamcomputing.eu |
 The Microelectronics Research Group, part of the University of Bristol, is a team of world-leading academic experts in computer architecture, design verification, fault tolerance, reconfigurable technologies and high performance computing, offering a strong focus on software as well as hardware, applying research and skills from both Computer Science and Electronics Engineering. www.cs.bris.ac.uk |
 ViennaCL is a free open-source linear algebra library for computations on many-core architectures (GPUs, MIC) and multi-core CPUs. The library is written in C++ and supports CUDA, OpenCL, and OpenMP. In addition to core functionality and many other features including BLAS level 1-3 support and iterative solvers, the latest release family ViennaCL 1.6.x provides fast pipelined iterative solvers including fast sparse matrix-vector products based on CSR-adaptive, a new fully HTML-based documentation, and a new sparse matrix type. Also, a Python wrapper named PyViennaCL is available. viennacl.sourceforge.net |
 Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX) is the world’s leading provider of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs and 3D ICs. These industry-leading devices are coupled with a next-generation design environment and IP to serve a broad range of customer needs, from programmable logic to programmable systems integration. At Super Computing 2014, Xilinx, Inc. announced the SDAccel™ development environment for OpenCL™, C, and C++, enabling up to 25X better performance/watt for data center application acceleration leveraging FPGAs. SDAccel, the newest member of the SDx™ family, combines the industry’s first architecturally optimizing compiler supporting any combination of OpenCL, C, and C++ kernels, along with libraries, development boards, and the first complete CPU/GPU-like development and run-time experience for FPGAs.www.xilinx.org |