Juan Fumero and Orion Papadakis from the University of Manchester presented their research works in the 20th international conference of MPLR and VMIL. Both events are co-hosted with the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) which is hosted in Cascais, Portugal.  All papers are available as open access and preprint versions exist in Zenodo:

Foivos Zakkak from Red Hat and Polyvios Pratikakis from FORTH presented at FOSSCOMM’23 about AERO. In particular, they focused on how our open-source software ecosystem aims to not only improve the efficiency of the EPI hardware but also accelerate and ease the processor’s integration into the cloud. They also discussed why open-source is the right choice for this and how it can help achieve faster adoption. Program: https://pretalx.fosscomm.gr/fosscomm-2023/talk/CRSBAF/ 

Thanos Stratikopoulos from the University of Manchester presented at DevoxxBE the latest updates on TornadoVM. TornadoVM is an open-source technology that is brought in by AERO to make Java applications running on heterogeneous hardware accelerators in a programmer friendly way. This presentation described the programming model of TornadoVM and gave guidelines to developers for how to approach the transition of Java code bases to TornadoVM compatible versions that...