Data-Oriented Architecture, Shading Languages and Lessons from Teaching C++

We're back for a summer event with talks from Aliaksandr Zhorau, Aleksei Ozeritskii and Tobias Wood

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Here's the approximate schedule:
18:30 Doors open

19:00 "Intro and news" - Phil Nash

19:10 "Entity Component Systems: A Data-Oriented Architecture for Modern CPUs" - Aliaksandr Zhorau

Designing cache-friendly and parallel simulation systems. Overview of entity component system paradigm.

19:50 break

20:10 "Bringing SYCL to Apple Metal" - Aleksei Ozeritskii

We present a Metal GPU backend for AdaptiveCpp that translates generic LLVM IR to Metal Shading Language via structured control flow lifting and address-space-aware code emission.

20:50 "What Teaching C++ Has Taught Me About C++" - Tobias Wood

Imagine, if you will, a large computer room filled with twenty-year-old second-year undergraduates. Most have never used a terminal before. Some don't know what files and folders are. You have 12 weeks to teach them "Object-Oriented Programming" using C++. Where do you start? Where do you finish? What do you do in between? Which parts of a language almost half a century old do you include and which do you drop? And ultimately, what do you end up learning yourself in the process?

21:00 Conclusion, and moving on somewhere else

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About the speakers
Aleksei Ozeritskii is a senior C++ engineer working on high-performance systems, GPU computing, and compiler technologies. His background includes distributed systems, numerical algorithms, and low-level performance optimizations. Aleksei enjoys solving complex technical problems and sharing ideas with the developer community.

Aliaksandr Zhorau is a game development engineer with over 15 years of experience in game engine development for massive online games. Aliaksandr possesses deep expertise in ECS paradigm for video games.

Tobias Wood is a physicist who has spent his career bouncing around the electromagnetic spectrum, learning C++ along the way. His first real C++ experience was working in the space industry designing telecommunications satellites, but then he went back to university to complete a PhD shooting lasers at stuff to work out whether it was cancer, which disappointingly involved only a little bit of C++. He then swapped to MRI where he has spent 15 years writing a lot of C++ to make interesting pictures of brains.