Sponsors

University of Washington, Department of Bioengineering
UW Bioengineering is home to some of the most exciting research being done in this discipline, and our inventions to date include ultrasound machines, the Sonic Toothbrush, microfluidics, smart biomaterials, medical imaging algorithms and applications, and high-performance computing. Faculty and students in the department are making discoveries and researching technologies that will revolutionize the healthcare system, across multidisciplinary endeavors in nanotechnology, biotechnology, modern biology, physiology, computation and informatics, imaging, sensors, devices, and instrumentation.

IBM
IBM Global Engineering Services represents the seamless combination of the Microelectronics Division, Engineering and Technology Services, and High Performance Computing. The new unit will open up all of these products and services to our clients, through the principle of collaborative innovation. Unique among these offerings is the Cell Broadband Engine, a powerful multicore chip comprising a 64-bit IBM Power Architecture processor core and eight synergistic processor cores. The Cell Broadband Engine has the potential to accelerate applications in numerically intense, graphical, signal processing and streaming applications in a variety of industries.

CodeSourcery
CodeSourcery builds software tools that enable its customers to get the most out of hardware platforms ranging from embedded devices to supercomputers. Sourcery G++, a complete software development environment based on the GNU Toolchain, is the leading choice of software engineers, operating system vendors, semiconductor companies, and device manufacturers. Sourcery VSIPL++, a portable, parallel signal- and image-processing toolkit, boosts performance and dramatically increases productivity for radar, sonar, and imaging applications. CodeSourcery's products and services deliver on the promise of open-source software and open standards. Founded in 1997, CodeSourcery is a privately-held company headquartered in Granite Bay, California.

Gedae
Gedae was created to allow you, the engineer, to set your imagination free while Gedae handles the details of implementing your creation on the hardware. Gedae, both the company and the product, is our creation. As engineers and people we are committed to Gedae's success. Since your success is our success our mission is to provide our customers with the best service, support and product possible.

RapidMind
RapidMind provides a software development platform that allows software vendors to deliver high performance on multi-core and stream processors, including the GPU and the Cell BE. Without sacrificing development simplicity, RapidMind-enabled applications experience a dramatic leap in performance.

SUWA
The Singapore-University of Washington Alliance (SUWA) in Bioengineering consists of the Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare (D2H2) and Engineered Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering (EBMTE) initiatives. The Alliance represents a formal agreement between researchers and educators in Singapore and their counterparts at the University of Washington (UW) and its Department of Bioengineering.