Just saw this pop up on my Radar. A New Conference, “High Performance Graphics 2009” has just been announced and will be co-located with SigGraph 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

We are pleased to announce High-Performance Graphics 2009. This conference is the synthesis of two highly-successful conference series:

  • Graphics Hardware, an annual conference focusing on graphics hardware, architecture, and systems since 1986.
  • Interactive Ray Tracing, an innovative conference series focusing on the emerging field of interactive ray tracing since 2006.

By combining these two conferences, we aim to bring to authors and attendees the best of both, while extending the scope of the new conference to cover the overarching field of performance-oriented graphics systems covering innovative algorithms, efficient implementations, and hardware architecture. This broader focus offers a common forum bringing together researchers, engineers, and architects to discuss the complex interactions of massively parallel hardware, novel programming models, efficient graphics algorithms, and innovative applications.

The conference will run from August 1st-3rd, and they are currently accepting submissions for Papers and the “Hot 3D Systems Track”, a Vendor-track to demonstrated new hardware and technology.

via HighPerformanceGraphics.org.