OpenCL

The OpenCL Working Group has published the OpenCL 3.1.2 specifications, finalizing the cl_khr_command_buffer extension alongside bug fixes and clarifications. www.phoronix.com/news/OpenCL-... #OpenCL

The Khronos Group has issued an RFP for OpenCL SDK Maintenance. Learn more: www.khronos.org/rfp/opencl-s... #OpenCL #RFP

Slides and video recordings from IWOCL 2026 are now available! Held May 6–8 in Heilbronn, this year's program covered OpenCL, SYCL, heterogeneous compute, AI inference, exascale frameworks, and more. Browse the full program: www.iwocl.org/iwocl-2026/c... #OpenCL #SYCL #GPU

Good stuff. Already enjoying OpenCL for TinyBVH! Further improvements to a vendor-agnostic tool are more than welcome.

OpenCL 3.1 just dropped. Khronos is tightening the spec by making SPIR-V kernels, subgroups, and integer dot products part of the core. Also improves memory model + sync and aligns device IDs with Vulkan. www.khronos.org/blog/opencl-... #OpenCL #GPU #Compute

The OpenCL Working Group has published the first in a series of cooperative matrix extensions. Cooperative matrix operations are at the heart of modern ML inference. A companion OpenCL C language extension is also in RFC. www.khronos.org/blog/opencl-... #OpenCL #Heterogeneous #Compute #MLInference

IWOCL 2026 is next week! Join the global OpenCL and SYCL community in Heilbronn, Germany for the premier forum dedicated to open compute languages and heterogeneous platform programming. Registration remains open: www.iwocl.org See you there. #IWOCL #OpenCL #SYCL #HPC #Heterogeneous #Compute

Join us at IWOCL 2026 to hear from Professor Hu He of Tsinghua University. Professor Hu will present on utilizing OpenCL to build the foundation for computing in China. IWOCL 2026 takes place May 6–8 in Heilbronn, Germany. Learn more and register: www.iwocl.org #IWOCL2026 #OpenCL #OpenSource #HPC

Join us at IWOCL 2026 to hear from Professor Pekka Jääskeläinen of Tampere University. Pekka will look back — and forward — in a talk titled "15 Years of PoCL: Past Lessons, Present Reality, Future Directions." See the full program and register at www.iwocl.org #IWOCL2026 #PoCL #OpenCL #HPC

Keynote at IWOCL 2026: Paulius Velesko presents chipStar — compiling unmodified #CUDA/HIP code into #OpenCL & #SPIR-V fat binaries that run on Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, ARM, and #RISC-V hardware. No recompilation needed. View the full program at: www.iwocl.org/iwocl-2026/c... #IWOCL2026 #OpenCL #SYCL

The IWOCL 2026 program is live. Three days of OpenCL & SYCL talks, keynotes, and community sessions — May 6-8 in Heilbronn, Germany. Full program and registration at iwocl.org #IWOCL2026 #OpenCL #SYCL #HPC #GPU #programming

Call for Submissions for IWOCL 2026 has been extended until January 25th! Get your submission in now and join us in for another inspiring workshop! iwocl.org #OpenCL #SYCL #IWOCL2026

Call for Submissions for IWOCL 2026 are due on January 18th. OpenCL and SYCL developers and implementers from industry, academia, and government are invited to contribute by presenting their work and discoveries. Learn more: iwocl.org #opencl #sycl #developers #programmers

New update for the @opencl.bsky.social #OpenCL Hardware Capability viewer released. Mostly a maintenance update to improve Android compatibility incl. support for reading OpenCL caps on newer handhelds (e.g. Pixel devices). opencl.gpuinfo.org/download.php

We are excited for this year's Supercomputing! Khronos will be well represented at the premier event for #HPC! Learn more about all the Khronos related sessions on our website: www.khronos.org/events/super... #SC25 #SYCL #OpenCL

OpenCL 3.0.19 Specification maintenance update released with two new extensions: cl_khr_spirv_queries and cl_khr_external_memory_android_hardware_buffer plus more: registry.khronos.org/OpenCL

digiKam 8.7 Released With AI Auto-Rotation Tool, OpenCV OpenCL + CUDA Support - https://www.phoronix.com/news/digiKam-8.7-Released

🎉 Happy Birthday SYCL! 🎉 We are celebrating a significant milestone as SYCL marks its tenth anniversary. First ratified and published in May 2015, SYCL has grown from an ambitious specification to a cornerstone of heterogeneous computing. Read more: khr.io/1iy

In this new blog, we look at OpenCL at last month's IWOCL 2025. The event confirmed that OpenCL continues to evolve and thrives as a critical foundation for cross-platform, high-performance computing across industries. Learn more: khr.io/1iu

Recordings and slides for the 13th International Workshop on OpenCL and SYCL are now available! See all the presentations from this pioneering workshop. www.iwocl.org/iwocl-2025/c...

117B grid cell simulation running using #OpenCL on a single system with two Xeon 6 with MRDRAM!!! #IWOCL

A key part of #IWOCL are State of the Union updates on the programming models from the Khronos Working Groups. First up, #OpenCL, presented by Ben Ashbaugh (Intel).

Hongqiang Wang (Qualcomm) presenting work at #IWOCL on their optimised #OpenCL backend for the open-source llama.cpp large language model (LLM).

Next up at #IWOCL, Siva Rama Krishna Reddy B and colleagues from Qualcomm share their work on Deep Learning Compilers on Adreno GPUs

Timothée David Cléris presents Shamrock: a Hydrodynamics (mainly Smooth Particle Hydro) Astrophysics code implemented using #SYCL #IWOCL

The submissions deadline for IWOCL 2025 has been extended by one-week to January 19, 2025. Those who have not submitted an abstract yet for the 13th International Workshop on #OpenCL and #SYCL are encouraged to check the guidelines for submission at: www.iwocl.org/call-for-sub...

The deadline to submit your talk proposal for IWOCL 2025 comes to a close on January 12, 2025. Be sure to get your talk in now for the annual gathering of the international community of #OpenCL and #SYCL developers! www.iwocl.org/call-for-sub... #IWOCL