From Java VMs and GPU Acceleration to Motorcycle Electronics

An airhacks.fm conversation with Christos Kotselidis (@CKotselidis)
about: early experiences with computers and programming, transition
to studying Java and virtual machines at university, work on Jikes
compiler and distributed software transactional memory for PhD,
current roles as professor at University of Manchester and working
on motorcycle electronics at KTM, overview of tornadovm project for
accelerating Java on GPUs and other hardware, discussion of recent
Java implementations of LLMs like jlama and llama3 java, potential
for TornadoVM to accelerate model inference, challenges around
quantized types for large models, integration with Project Panama
for improved native interop, importance of performance and energy
efficiency for enterprise Java applications, potential for Java
Flight Recorder to provide power consumption metrics, need for
standardized quantized types in Java, opportunities for Java in
AI/ML workloads, invitation for companies to reach out about using
Tornado VM for their use cases

Christos Kotselidis on twitter: @CKotselidis