GPGPU'09

The presentation at GPGPU'09 went well yesterday. I lasted several minutes over budget [as usual], but I felt good about it. When I get home and find my credentials to the GPU VSIPL website, I'll upload my presentation and cite my paper.

Today was the first day of ASPLOS. I wound up sleeping in and missed the keynote, but I sat at the keynote speaker's table during lunch. He's a Google guy and regaled the group with clever ideas, charm, and wit.

The trouble with conferences is they fill you with a billion great ideas and no time to implement them. The wild and crazy idea session included:

* bubble wrap cores - disposable CPU cores so you can run several hotter and faster and burn them out quickly
* on-chip power - nuclear or piezoelectric
* neuro-implants - CPUs in your brain
* purely speculative cores - run parts of your program long before you ever get to them

2 of 3 beer vouchers remain.

$QR$ Presentation

I finally finished my GPGPU '09 presentation. I need to script it and make sure I can present all 45 slides in 20 minutes. Some of them are closer to animations than "view graphs" so the actual number of slides I'd spend more than a few sentences on is lower.

How do you guys prepare for presentations?

Word-for-word scripting, bullet points you remember to mention in the context of a larger discussion you have with your audience, mix Adderall and a vodka tonic shortly before the presentation and hope for the best? Comment!