The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has announced a webinar covering the process of porting CUDA code to SYCL, with a focus on high-performance math libraries like cuBLAS and cuFFT, to be held Tuesday, April 29. Registration is here. ALCF’s Thomas Applencourt and Abhishek Bagusetty will discuss key challenges, such as differences in API, memory management, […]
Exascale Early Adopter Series Webinar Sept. 27: Optimizing SYCL Workloads on Aurora and Sunspot
September 25, 2023 by
On Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 11 am Central Time, Varsha Madananth, an applications engineer at Intel, will lead an online webinar on optimizing SYCL workloads for PVC on the Aurora exascale system and the Sunspot testbed system. Registration is here, virtual meeting information will follow. This webinar will delve into a range of optimization strategies, […]
ALCF to Hold Developer Session on “Introduction to Migrating to the SYCL Portal,” Jan. 25
December 14, 2022 by
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a developer session on “Introduction to Migrating to the SYCL Portal” on Wednesday, January 25 from 11 am to noon, Central Time. Go here to register for the event. The session leaders will be: Chekuri S. Choudary, Intel’s technical lead and program manager for the Migrating to SYCL […]
Khronos Calls for Participation in SYCL Safety-Critical Exploratory API Forum
March 23, 2022 by
Beaverton, OR – March 23, 2022 6 AM PT – Today, The Khronos Group, an open consortium of companies creating advanced acceleration interoperability standards, has announced a call for participation in a new exploratory forum to examine the need for an API that leverages the widely adopted SYCL standard for safety-critical industries such as automotive, avionics, medical, and industrial markets. The […]
Argonne and Oak Ridge Award Codeplay Software to Strengthen SYCL Support
June 18, 2021 by
Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has awarded Codeplay a contract implementing the oneAPI DPC++ compiler, an implementation of the SYCL open standard software, to support AMD GPU-based high-performance compute (HPC) supercomputers. The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is deploying an exascale supercomputer, Aurora, based on Intel GPUs with […]
NERSC, ALCF, Codeplay Partner on SYCL GPU Compiler
March 1, 2021 by
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) are working with Codeplay Software to enhance the LLVM SYCL GPU compiler capabilities for Nvidia A100 GPUs. The collaboration is designed to help NERSC and ALCF users, along with the HPC community in general, produce […]
Khronos Releases SYCL 2020 Specification — Closer Alignment with ISO C++
February 9, 2021 by
Today, The Khronos Group, an open consortium of companies creating advanced interoperability standards, announces the ratification and public release of the SYCL 2020 final specification—the open standard for single source C++ parallel programming. A milestone encompassing years of specification development, SYCL 2020 builds on the functionality of SYCL 1.2.1 to provide improved programmability, smaller code size […]
oneAPI DPC++ in SYCL 2020 Final Spec
February 9, 2021 by
oneAPI Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) features are included in the SYCL 2020 final specification, released today by The Khronos Group, an open consortium of industry-leading companies creating advanced interoperability standards. Since its launch in 2019, DPC++ has progressed significantly, building cross-architecture and cross-vendor support from the oneAPI Centers of Excellence and now successfully upstreaming features to […]
New, Open DPC++ Extensions Complement SYCL and C++
June 30, 2020 by
In this guest article, our friends at Intel discuss how accelerated computing has diversified over the past several years given advances in CPU, GPU, FPGA, and AI technologies. This innovation drives the need for an open and cross-platform language that allows developers to realize the potential of new hardware, minimizes development cost and complexity, and maximizes reuse of their software investments.
Codeplay SYCL 1.2.1 Solution offers an Open Alternative to CUDA
October 18, 2019 by
Today Codeplay announced the world’s first fully-conformant SYCL 1.2.1 Solution. “As a non-proprietary alternative to the incumbent CUDA, SYCL is an open standard developed by the Khronos Group that enables developers to write code for heterogeneous systems using standard C++. Developers are looking at how they can accelerate their applications without having to write optimized processor specific code. SYCL is the industry standard for C++ acceleration, giving developers a platform to write high-performance code in standard C++, unlocking the performance of accelerators and specialized processors from companies such as AMD, Intel, Renesas and Arm.”
