Introduction to the Vulkan Graphics API

Summary: Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms. As such, this API should be of interest to everyone who writes interactive graphics programs and wants to eke out the fastest performance possible. Part of Vulkan’s efficiency comes from moving elements of the driver into the application. While this improves performance, it has the side effect of making Vulkan difficult to learn. This SIGGRAPH course will use materials designed for, and refined with, a university Vulkan course. Besides notes, the distribution will include working, well-documented code and complete build solutions.

Author(s)/Speaker(s):
Moderator: Mike Bailey, Oregon State University, United States of America
Lecturer(s): Mike Bailey, Oregon State University, United States of America

Author(s)/Speaker(s) Bio:
Mike Bailey is a professor in Computer Science at Oregon State University. His area of interest is really all-things-computer-graphics, but especially high-performance graphics, stereographics, scientific visualization, and GPU computing. He has extensive experience teaching computer graphics topics in his college classes (over 6,000 students so far) and in professional short courses (87, 40 of them at SIGGRAPH conferences). Mike has won 11 university teaching awards, as well as the 2015 SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award.

Mike Bailey is a professor in Computer Science at Oregon State University. His area of interest is really all-things-computer-graphics, but especially high-performance graphics, stereographics, scientific visualization, and GPU computing. He has extensive experience teaching computer graphics topics in his college classes (over 6,000 students so far) and in professional short courses (87, 40 of them at SIGGRAPH conferences). Mike has won 11 university teaching awards, as well as the 2015 SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award.