SIMD subgroup meeting on 2021-05-14

[penzn]

The meeting will be on Friday, May 14 at 9:00AM - 10:00AM PDT/ 5:00PM - 6:00PM CET.

Details on how to sign up are in https://github.com/WebAssembly/relaxed-simd/issues/20#issue-859965236

Since we have formed SIMD subgroup, we can use the to discuss things beyond near-term development of the two proposals. A few topics come to mind, but everyone is welcome to propose anything related to SIMD or vector processing. For example (this is a mix of current and forward-looking ideas I can think of given discussion we've had):

• @programmerjake do you want to give a quick overview of SimpleV and how it can be relevant to Wasm?
• @lemaitre do you want to talk about first-class mask support?
• @sunfishcode do you want to discuss parallel loop construct and how it can extend to accelerators?

[programmerjake]

where/how is the meeting occurring? on Jitsi? some other video chat?

[programmerjake]

Sure, I could talk for a few minutes about SimpleV

[penzn]

where/how is the meeting occurring? on Jitsi? some other video chat?

So far it has been on Google Meet, but we could also try to switch to CG-preferred application (Zoom).

[programmerjake]

Google Meet works for me.

[lemaitre]

Yes, I can present something about masks. How long should I target? 5 min? 10 min?

[penzn]

That is completely up to you, you don't have to be super brief. Since we are not pressed for time yet, we are not adding timing for agenda items like CG does.

[nemequ]

I've been working on adding an implementation of SVE to SIMDe. If anyone is interested I could probably talk about it for a few minutes; it might provide some insight into handling the differences between different APIs, or it might be a complete waste of time :)

[penzn]

@nemequ that'd be great.

[penzn]

@programmerjake @lemaitre @nemequ did you get a calendar invite with the link to join? If so, does the link work for you? :) We just had technical difficulties with presenters joining CG meeting this week.

[programmerjake]

@penzn Yes, it shows up on my google calendar, if that's what you mean.

[lemaitre]

@penzn Yes, I received the invite, and the link seems to work

[ngzhian]

https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings/pull/781 adds meeting notes to WebAssembly/meetings. Feel free to take a look at the notes to make corrections if note-takers missed something, ~I will merge it end of next week.~ (I got too excited and merged it, submit pull requests to https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings/blob/master/simd/2021/SIMD-05-14.md if I get anything wrong, thanks!)

[penzn]

I think meeting was a great success, thanks to everybody for participating!

Meeting notes (edits are still accepted): https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings/blob/master/simd/2021/SIMD-05-14.md

Next meeting: #36