HPVM v1.0 released
HPVM ("heterogeneous parallelvirtual machine") is a compiler for targets like GPUs and FPGAs based onLLVM; the 1.0 release is available now. "This release is a major addition to our first release (version 0.5),adding support for linear algebra tensor operations, Pytorch andKeras frontends, approximations for convolution operators, and anefficient and flexible framework for approximation tuning. Our novelapproximation-tuner automatically selects approximation knobs forindividual tensor operations and selects configurations that maximizea (configurable) performance objective."