This track will provide key insights into Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) (previously known as FSA) and will feature sessions covering such topics as extreme optimizations on GPUs and APUs, performance modeling and benchmarks, techniques for optimizing parallel and power efficient algorithms for many-core and heterogeneous architectures, domain-specific libraries, and real-world applications.

This track will consist of sessions covering existing and emerging web technologies including HTML5, WebGL, WebCL, JavaScript, and others. Sessions will demonstrate how the power of heterogeneous parallel processing will allow users to unleash powerful client and cloud based web applications; thereby, accessing and effectively utilizing the massive information residing on the Internet. In addition, this track will feature sessions covering evolving web browser technologies based on new user interface designs incorporating 3D, speech, gestures, etc., as well as methods and techniques to balance frontend and backend processing and rendering.

This track will focus on the major cloud computing paradigm shift that is driving new methods of delivering computing resources, applications, data, and services globally via Internet technology. Sessions will demonstrate how multi-core processors are at the heart of Cloud Computing and will allow easy utilization and manipulation of large data volumes when combined with virtualization and other software technologies. Additionally, this track will highlight software and technologies that are focused on harnessing the power of these dense, multi-core environments.

This track will demonstrate how PC games and consumer-centric applications have reached new levels due in large measure to their ability to take advantage of multi-core computing technologies. Software developers will be exposed to these technologies and techniques with sessions covering topics such as rendering, compression, string matching and physics in a GPU, multi-GPU, and GPU/APU computing environments.

This track will showcase examples of innovation being driven into client computing experiences by presenting sessions which demonstrate how powerful clients will enhance user experiences from low powered CE devices up through larger screens in the home or office.

This track will center on innovations in multimedia processing applications and algorithms that are enabled by heterogeneous computing. Sessions will cover a wide range of multimedia disciplines including advanced video and image enhancement, post-processing, visual communication, image retrieval, codecs, OpenCL™ coding techniques and algorithm optimizations for multimedia, content recognition, computer vision, and audio processing.

This track will feature sessions focused on areas of interest to parties developing professional graphics and computing applications. Sessions will include discussions of various areas of visual computing, including mixed-mode OpenGL/DirectX^®/OpenCL™ applications as well as techniques for utilizing CPUs and multiple GPUs to get the most out of the graphics and computing power available in today’s professional workstations.

This track will showcase the “best in show” in programming languages and models that target heterogeneous architecture. Sessions will include: what will programming models for next generation heterogeneous architectures look like; how will GPU and CPU features and differences be abstracted; and, what techniques apply for building Domain-Specific Languages (DSL) on heterogeneous platforms.

This track will focus on a full range of heterogeneous computing developer tools from compilers and debuggers to profilers and analyzers. Sessions will present demonstrations of performance optimization and visualization tools, rich and comprehensive developer tools, and techniques for leveraging the full benefits and maximum performance of heterogeneous computing environments.

This track will explore how hardware support for security is changing, and new ways in which software can take advantage of, and positively exploit, available hardware to provide a seamless, secure experience while protecting against advanced persistent threats, malware and viruses, or loss of identity data. Sessions will cover trends impacting computer security such as: mobile client connectivity to the cloud, the consumerization of IT, and the impact of regulatory accountability on the performance of mission critical workloads.