OpenCL Middleware Seminar by AJ Guillon, who will demonstrate C++11 OpenCL middleware that enables professional software development for heterogeneous computing.
Kit Barton of IBM Toronto's Compiler Team will talk about the XL compiler family, which is used on SciNet Power-6 system (the TCS) and Power-7 system, and will be used on the new Blue Gene/Q system coming this fall as well
Michael Nolta from CITA (Toronto) will talk about Julia, a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments
Qiyu Zhu and Colin Morris, undergraduates at the University of Toronto Computer Science department, will speak about work implementing the Cowichan Problems, a set of model problems similar to numerical HPC kernels, in Erlang