Most recently, I was at Apple working alongside an amazing team of engineers developing OpenCL, an open standard for heterogenous processing on multi-core devices for task and data parallel programming.
I'll be joining the Western Australia Supercomputing Program (WASP) at the University of Western Australia ((UWA) as a research fellow and PhD candidate in June/July 2009.
Previously, I worked at ATI among some other smart software architects and driver developers, as the principle engineer on the Close-to-Metal (CTM) device interface project --the first vendor supported compute interface for GPUs.
I've also spent several years working in the visual effects industry, including positions at Weta Digital, ESC, ILM and Pinnacle Studios.
I received my Masters degree from the National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA) at Bournemouth University and went to the University of Washington for my undergrad.
A Performance-Oriented Data Parallel Virtual Machine for GPUs
Derek Gerstmann, Mark Peercy, Mark Segal
SIGGRAPH Sketch 2006
[pdf] [slides] [mov]
Derek Gerstmann, Mark Peercy, Mark Segal
SIGGRAPH Sketch 2006
[pdf] [slides] [mov]
A Performance-Oriented Data Parallel Virtual Machine for GPUs
Derek Gerstmann, Mark Peercy, Mark Segal
Graphics Hardware Hot3d Presentation 2006
[slides]
A Stream Processing Abstraction and Rendering Toolkit for GPUs
Derek Gerstmann
Masters Thesis, NCCA Bournemouth University. 2004.
[pdf]
[project page]
Spawner: A Genetic Procedural Animation System
Derek Gerstmann
Proceedings of EVOMUSART 2006
[project page]
Derek Gerstmann
Proceedings of EVOMUSART 2006
[project page]
A High Quality Image Based Relighting System for Visual Effects Production
Derek Gerstmann
Best Poster Award
Undergraduate Research. University of Washington. 2004.
[pdf]
[poster]
[project page]
Parallel Programming for Heterogenous
Multi-Core Devices
WASP/UWA 2008 [slides]
A Performance-Oriented Data Parallel Virtual Machine for GPUs
SIGGRAPH 2006 [slides]
Graphics Hardware 2006 [slides]
Silicon Valley SIGGRAPH Users Group 2006[slides]
MIT 2006 [slides]
WASP/UWA 2008 [slides]
A Performance-Oriented Data Parallel Virtual Machine for GPUs
SIGGRAPH 2006 [slides]
Graphics Hardware 2006 [slides]
Silicon Valley SIGGRAPH Users Group 2006[slides]
MIT 2006 [slides]
A Stream Processing Abstraction and Rendering Toolkit for GPUs:
A basic stream processing toolkit which provides an efficient means for performing general purpose computations using programmable graphics hardware.
A High Quality Real-Time Lighting System for Visual Effects Production:
An image based rendering technique for generating a high quality preview in real-time for visualizing the effects of a lighting environment on a particular scene.
Spawner:
A basic evolutionary computer graphics framework capable of evolving abstract digital images. It uses evolutionary programming methods to generate high-dynamic range images and animations from a variety of procedural operations.
Visualizer:
An interactive renderer for visualizing implicit, procedurally defined models via marching cubes / tetras, raytracing and volume raymarching.
