Thanos Stratikopoulos from the TornadoVM team in UNIMAN presented at OCX 2026 the journey of TornadoVM from academia to open-source success. TornadoVM is an open-source technology supported by AERO to enable Java applications to run efficiently on heterogeneous hardware accelerators in a programmer-friendly way. This presentation highlighted the evolution of TornadoVM, its growing ecosystem, and […]

On February 6, 2026, the TornadoVM team from UNIMAN presented TornadoVM at Voxxed Days CERN, hosted at CERN in Switzerland.  In this session, we introduced TornadoVM as a state-of-the-art open-source framework that enables native GPU acceleration directly from Java, allowing developers to program heterogeneous hardware while the runtime transparently handles compilation, execution, and optimization. We […]

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 […]