{"id":3795,"date":"2012-10-09T15:08:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T14:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/?p=3795"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:38:50","slug":"hpec-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/2012\/10\/09\/hpec-12\/","title":{"rendered":"HPEC \u201812"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague <a href=\"mailto:faheem_sheikh@mentor.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faheem Sheikh<\/a> recently attended the 2012 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieee-hpec.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HPEC \u201812<\/a>) at Waltham, MA USA. It would seem surprising, on the surface, that such an event would be of interest to specialists in embedded software. However, Mentor Embedded&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentor.com\/embedded-software\/hpc-libraries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HPC Library products<\/a>, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentor.com\/embedded-software\/hpc-libraries\/sourcery-vsipl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sourcery VSIPL++<\/a> play very well in this space and illustrate how the scope of embedded software is expanding and why Mentor Graphics was a gold sponsor of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Faheem has kindly allowed me to share some of his observations &#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>HPEC took place over 2 days &#8211; Tuesday\/Wednesday 11\/12 September. But, as is common with large conferences, there were additional activities outside of these hours. In particular, on Monday there was a half-day tutorial titled &#8220;High Performance Computing: Embedded and Distributed Systems&#8221;, which brought together a number of aspects of HPC with conventional embedded systems development. This tutorial featured three sessions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction to embedded and distributed systems<\/li>\n<li>Front-end hardware for embedded computing<\/li>\n<li>Back-end software for embedded computing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main conference included numerous technical sessions. Each day there was a keynote and two invited speakers.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2012\/10\/MentorHPEC1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3799\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2012\/10\/MentorHPEC1-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mentor Embedded had a booth in the exhibition area, that was manned by other colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>A particular highlight of the conference was the awarding of a best paper award to our colleague <a href=\"mailto:stefan_seefeld@mentor.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stefan Seefeld<\/a> for his paper <strong>A MATLAB-to-target Development workflow using Sourcery VSIPL++<\/strong>. Here is a summary:<\/p>\n<p>Stefan started by telling the audience, now that they have heard a lot about performance, it was time to worry about productivity. He then went on to explain the multi-language development work flow and how he proposed a unified approach. Stefan presented Sourcery VSIPL++ MATLAB bindings that expose same data model and API as Sourcery VSIPL++ allowing developers to easily convert MATLAB algorithms to embedded C++ code. He also argued the importance of an integrated test and prototyping system and showed how Sourcery VSIPL++ MATLAB bindings achieve that with the help of a signal processing example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague Faheem Sheikh recently attended the 2012 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC \u201812) at Waltham, MA USA&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[300,491,492,493,458],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-embedded-software","tag-hpec","tag-ieee","tag-matlab","tag-vsipl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10108,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions\/10108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}