At SIGGRAPH in Boston, Derek Gerstmann of ATI presented a sketch titled, “A Performance-Oriented Data Parallel Virtual Machine for GPGPU Applications.” The system exposes GPU functionality at a low-level (including the fragment processors’ native instruction set), giving the programmer direct control over program compilation and loading, GPU memory management, and GPU/CPU synchronization. A write-up is available at www.ati.com/developer. If you are interested in obtaining the system for evaluation, please contact researcher@ati.com.