Prominent Intel Compiler Engineer Heads Off To AMD
([AMD] 6 Hours Ago
Intel Compiler Expert Now At AMD)
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James Brodman worked for the last 15 years at Intel on their ISPC SIMD compiler and then in more recent years on the Intel DPC++ compiler and SYCL support as part of Intel's oneAPI initiative. Rather interestingly, this compiler expert has now joined AMD.
James Brodman announced last week on [1]LinkedIn that he was leaving Intel and recapped his years of working on ISPC and then SYCL/DPC++ as a big part of their modern oneAPI initiative for programming across different hardware and even SYCL on competitor hardware platforms.
Brodman also co-authored a book on SYCL and Data Parallel C++ during his tenure at Intel.
It turns out he was heading off to AMD. He [2]confirmed yesterday he joined AMD as a Fellow.
Brodman didn't outline what his plans are at AMD but presumably still in the compiler realm with a focus on parallel programming. It will be interesting to see what AMD has cooking on the compiler front -- there's been increasing activity for many months now from MLIR and IREE to enhancing their AMDGPU back-end -- and what improvements could be coming around their SYCL support and given his experience would be a big asset for enhancing their LLVM-based compiler efforts for ROCm and AMDXDNA.
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7417939770342948864/?origin=NETWORK_CONVERSATIONS
[2] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7419760283667120129/
James Brodman announced last week on [1]LinkedIn that he was leaving Intel and recapped his years of working on ISPC and then SYCL/DPC++ as a big part of their modern oneAPI initiative for programming across different hardware and even SYCL on competitor hardware platforms.
Brodman also co-authored a book on SYCL and Data Parallel C++ during his tenure at Intel.
It turns out he was heading off to AMD. He [2]confirmed yesterday he joined AMD as a Fellow.
Brodman didn't outline what his plans are at AMD but presumably still in the compiler realm with a focus on parallel programming. It will be interesting to see what AMD has cooking on the compiler front -- there's been increasing activity for many months now from MLIR and IREE to enhancing their AMDGPU back-end -- and what improvements could be coming around their SYCL support and given his experience would be a big asset for enhancing their LLVM-based compiler efforts for ROCm and AMDXDNA.
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7417939770342948864/?origin=NETWORK_CONVERSATIONS
[2] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7419760283667120129/