7 Exciting Developments in SYCL World

Published On Sat Nov 02 2024
7 Exciting Developments in SYCL World

Sycl tagged news - The Khronos Group Inc

Khronos Group’s ANARI and SYCL will each be represented Supercomputing 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia on November 17-22. ANARI will have a Birds of a Feather (BOF), and SYCL will also have a BOF along with a hands-on tutorial. Come talk to us!

SYCL Overview - The Khronos Group Inc

PyTorch 2.4 Update

PyTorch 2.4 now supports Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series and the SYCL software stack, making it easier to speed up your AI workflows for both training and inference. This update allows a consistent programming experience with minimal coding effort and extends PyTorch’s device and runtime capabilities. This enhancement simplifies deploying PyTorch on ubiquitous hardware, making it easier for you to integrate different hardware back ends.

Unified Acceleration and Khronos Collaboration

In a world where AI, HPC, and Safety-Critical acceleration is shifting toward heterogeneous architectures, the need for seamless interoperability and shared open standards has never been more critical. The UXL Foundation and the Khronos Group have entered into a liaison agreement to help accelerate the evolution of open accelerated heterogeneous programming.

Announcing the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation - oneAPI

Intel Compiler Achieves SYCL 2020 Conformance

Intel announced that the oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler has completed conformance testing and is the first compiler officially supporting the full SYCL 2020 specification from the Khronos Group. This milestone ensures portability and reliable performance of SYCL code compiled by Intel’s compiler on different GPUs in the long term.

SYCL Hacking Festival

IWOCL 2024 will be hosting a SYCL Hacking Festival providing a great opportunity for the community to hack on projects that they feel they could progress within a single day. All participants will be supported by mentors that are world-leaders in SYCL development.

SYCL Goes Green with SYnergy

Biagio Cosenza from the University of Salerno / CINECA Supercomputing Center writes about the SYnergy research project that enables efficient C++ based heterogeneous parallel programming with the Khronos SYCL API. The project shows scalable energy savings up to 64 GPUs.

SYCL 2020 Adopters Program

The Khronos Group announces the launch of the SYCL 2020 Adopters Program to enable implementations to become officially conformant to the latest-generation SYCL specification. This program ensures consistent implementation by multiple vendors to create a reliable platform for developers.

oneAPI Programming Model

Other Notable Updates

Researchers from the University of Cambridge use SYCL for solving differential equations with the finite element method. AdaptiveCpp 23.10.0 is released with new capabilities. Codeplay extends the oneAPI ecosystem with an open source project for HPC and AI. Codeplay also announces the SYCLOPS project, and Khronos releases the SYCL 2020 Revision 7 maintenance update. Return to main content