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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: TornadoVM: The Need for GPU Speed
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Michalis Papadimitriou (@mikepapadim) about:
starting with Java 8,
first computer experiences with Pentium 2,
doom 2 and Microsoft Paint,
university introduction to Object-oriented programming using Objects First and bluej IDE,
Monte Carlo simulations for financial portfolio optimization in Java,
porting Java applications to OpenCL for GPU acceleration achieving 20x speedup,
working at Huawei on GPU hardware,
writing unit tests as introduction to TornadoVM,
working on FPGA integration and Graal compiler optimizations,
experience at OctoAI startup doing AI compiler optimizations for TensorFlow and PyTorch models,
understanding model formats evolution from ONNX to GGUF,
standardization of LLM inference through Llama...