TornadoVM is a programming and execution framework for offloading and running JVM applications on multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs. With the same code, some of your existing program code can be executed hundreds of times faster!

Guests

• Juan Fumero, TornadoVM Lead Architect
  • https://twitter.com/snatverk
• Christos Kotselidis, TornadoVM Project Leader
  • https://twitter.com/CKotselidis
• Thanos Stratikopoulos, TornadoVM Senior Solutions Architect
  • https://twitter.com/thanos_str
• Jakob Jenkov
  • https://twitter.com/jjenkov 

Podcast 

• Host: Erik Costlow
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• Production: Frank Delporte 
  • https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte

Content

• 00’00 Intro
• 00’36 Introduction of the guests
• 04’26 What is TornadoVM?
  • https://foojay.io/today/hardware-acceleration-for-java-tornadovm-can-do-it/
  • https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/hardware/
  • https://www.tornadovm.org/
• 05’54 How applications can make use of the acceleration provided by TornadoVM
• 11’48 The difference between CPU threads and GPU instruction chain
• 13’42 Possible use cases for TornadoVM
• 15’23 Results on Apple M1
  • https://foojay.io/today/a-flavour-of-tornadovm-on-apple-m1-pro/
• 17’19 Can TornadoVM be used in cloud environments
• 21’18 How to use the API
  • https://foojay.io/today/migrating-applications-to-tornadovm-v0-15-part-1/
  • https://foojay.io/today/migrating-applications-to-tornadovm-v0-15-part-2/ 
• 24’41 Jakobs view of what would be a good match between TornadoVM and cloud usage on AWS Lambdas
  • https://foojay.io/today/azul-provides-the-crac-in-aws-snapstart-builds/
  • https://foojay.io/today/how-to-run-a-java-application-with-crac-in-a-docker-container/
  • AWS GPU and CPU capabilities: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-gpu.html 
• 30’54 The complexity of GPU and FPGA programming languages and handling the differences between different architectures of GPUs, CPUs, and FPGAs
  • https://www.khronos.org/ 
• 40’28 How TornadoVM could be used to heat up buildings, help to reduce the total cloud cost for companies, and run ChatGPT
• 43’30 Relationship between project Panama and TornadoVM
• 48’10 How to get started with TornadoVM
  • https://tornadovm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html
• 54’41 Outro