Siggraph 2008: Top Picks to Follow Along

Siggraph is still underway, and it’s a great year to be a game developer at Siggraph.

I’ve already got my pick for the three best items for a game developer to look at, and you can do so now:

• Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games Course
• Halo 3 lighting
• Virtual Textures
• Simulation and Rendering Massive Crowds on GPU
• Wavelets with Current and Future Hardware
• Starcraft Effects & Techniques
• Beyond Programmable Shading Course
• GPU architecture: history, current cards, future direction
• Larrabee architecture and programming techniques
• Writing data & task parallel algorithms for tightly coupled computation and graphics
• Compute API discussions
• Examples of parallel applications in games and graphics
• Larrabee Paper

If you weren’t able to make it to a presentation, I highly recommend you check out Siggraph Encore, where you can purchase videos of the presentations.

Heading to Siggraph 2008

Siggraph 2008 is here! I'm not ready!

Monday, I'll be presenting. If you missed my Gamefest presentation on Parallel Rendering with DirectX 9, now's your chance. ;)

• Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games: Part l & Part2
  - Loads of excellent presentations for game developers
  - I'll be presenting at ~11:30
  - Monday, 8:30 am - 12:15 pm, 3:45 pm - 5:30 pm
  

I'll be focusing a lot on the future of game systems.... Larrabee is making waves there, but so are others. Here are some events I'm prioritizing:

• Parallelism Papers
  - Larrabee paper is there
  - Tuesday, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm
• Beyond Programmable Shading class: Fundamentals & In Action
  - Excellent topics relevant for future systems such as Larrabee ... (and other unannounced systems)
  - Thursday, 8:30 am - 12:15 pm, 1:45 - 5:30 pm

I wanted to review plenty of papers before going, but I just didn't get time. So, of course I'll hit

• Fast-Forward Technical Papers Preview
  - Monday, 6 - 8 pm

What are your must see sessions?