On February 6, 2026, the TornadoVM team from UNIMAN gave a talk in Ticino, Switzerland!  The talk presented TornadoVM as a solution for accelerating Java applications on GPUs, CPUs, and FPGAs without writing any GPU code, addressing the challenges of GPU access from Java in the AI era. The speakers highlighted the key innovations of […]

On 22 January, Thanos Stratikopoulos from the University of Manchester (UNIMAN) presented a webinar demonstrating TornadoVM running with Eclipse Adoptium Temurin JDK 21, highlighting how modern JVMs can enable heterogeneous GPU execution directly from Java. Through concrete examples, he showed how TornadoVM’s API improves data movement, execution efficiency, and overall throughput for large-scale scientific workloads.  […]

Michalis Papadimitriou from the University of Manchester presented the latest updates on TornadoVM at the JCON Conference. TornadoVM is an open-source technology developed within the AERO project to enable Java applications to run efficiently on heterogeneous hardware accelerators in a programmer-friendly way. The presentation outlined TornadoVM’s programming model and provided practical guidelines for developers on […]