llvm dev - Jan 2022 - 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
>
>
>
>

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
>
>
>
>

I am interested to join.

Unnikrishnan, IiT PALAKKAD


On Mon, Jan 10, 2022, 23:28 Johannes Doerfert via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 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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