The AI Developer Journey on a Flexible, Edge Compute Platform
As the demand for accelerated computing for AI use cases continues to grow exponentially there are many challenges presented to businesses and their developers in creating software solutions for long-term deployment at the edge. In this talk we’ll explore both the new platform portability challenges and the old-persisting performance challenges for customers, looking at this from Imagination’s perspective as a provider of flexible GPU IP. We’ll consider the role that The UXL Foundation / oneAPI can play in smoothing out the often bumpy “Functional to Performant to Optimal” AI/compute developer journey.
Speaker(s)
Dave Murray - AI and Compute Product Management; Imagination Technologies
Dave has worked in the semiconductor industry in the field of accelerated computing at the edge for nearly 3 decades. Sarting out in embedded DSP algorithm development for the first generations of GSM chipsets, long before the term “accelerated computing” was popularised and back when the words “the Edge” unambiguously referred to the Guitarist from U2.
Dave has held management positions in Software engineering, Applications engineering, Ecosystem partnerships and Product management at a number of high-profile companies, including Intel-Movidius where he was deeply involved with bringing the first generations of AI compute accelerators to market; technologies that have culminated in the AI PC.
At Imagination Dave is focused on the AI/Compute strategy and the whole software product offering, including ecosystem engagement onto open standards and open-source projects. Dave was at Intel during the inception of the oneAPI initiative and now represents Imagination as an active member of the UXL Steering Committee.
