Tom Deakin

C++ is (nearly) all you need for HPC. Catch up on the talk I gave at an online seminar at Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) youtu.be/DjMccIx5LK4?...

A nice summary, and a call to action, from the organisers of the PASC'25 Mini-Symposium on Application Perspective on SYCL, a Modern Programming Model for Performance and Portability youtu.be/4K612eNB6cI #APEROL #SYCL

#PASC25 continues this afternoon with the Aperol mini-symposium on Application Perspectives on #SYCL. pasc25.pasc-conference.org/session/?ses...

If you are at PASC25, join us at the 3rd edition of the Application Perspective on SYCL (APerOL) ‪minisymposium @al42and.bsky.social‬ and I organize on June 18, 14:00 in room 5.2D02 Details on current & previous editions: kth-pdc.github.io/aperol #PASC25 #portability #SYCL #HPC #scientificcomputing

🇨🇭Attending #PASC25 for the first time. Looking forward to speaking at the “Empowering Interdisciplinary Collaboration through Reproducible Benchmarking” Mini-symposium tomorrow about Benchmarking the Three Ps: Performance, Portability, and Productivity pasc25.pasc-conference.org/presentation...

So long #ISC25!

All things, with one exception, have to end After years of sharing #HPC news and insights, it's time to log off It was fun while it lasted and I remain grateful to all of you who followed and interacted Stay curious, stay kind! — @hpcguru.bsky.social signing off #HPC #Farewell

@nextsilicon.com has joined the OpenMP Architecture Review Board! Their Intelligent Compute Architecture brings new momentum to our mission: advancing open, portable, shared-memory parallelism. Welcome to the community! 🌍💻 #OpenMP #HPC #NextSilicon

Here at #ISC25 in Hamburg this week. I’ll be speaking about open standards at the Birds of a Feather Sessions (#OpenMP and #UXL Foundation) and sharing (alongside #NVIDIA) how to program GPUs with standard #C++. Looking forward to catching up with this great community. #HPC

10 years of open standard heterogeneous parallel programming in C++ with #SYCL www.khronos.org/blog/a-decad...

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

The recordings and slides from the IXPUG 2025 conference are up! Some great talks to watch all about leveraging open standards for accelerated compute. www.ixpug.org/events/ixpug... #OpenMP #SYCL

At #IWOCL I had the pleasure of sharing the update from the #SYCL Working Group on all things SYCL past, present, and future.

If you’re interested in getting fluid codes running fast on GPUs, be sure to check out this role with Ben Thornber at Queen's University Belfast. hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... #Kokkos

On April 29, 2025, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) will hold a webinar covering the process of porting CUDA code to SYCL, with a focus on high-performance math libraries like cuBLAS and cuFFT. Learn more and register: events.cels.anl.gov/event/643/

See you at #IWOCL 2026! Keep an eye on iwocl.org for updates, and the archive for this and previous conferences. #OpenCL #SYCL

The #IWOCL 2025 Outstanding Full Paper Award Winner, Peter Thoman (UIBK) presents their work on optimising strided data movement across GPUs with Celerity and #SYCL

Just running compute with #SYCL is great but you always want to *SEE* the output. Duncan Brawley (Codeplay Software) is presenting interoperability for images with the DirectX and Vulkan Graphics APIs. #IWOCL

Virtual functions are important to C++ programs. Alexey Sachkov (Intel) proposes how #SYCL can by updated to remove the current restriction on this to make it work for those (like Kokkos) asking for it. #IWOCL

Next up at #IWOCL, Julian Oppermann (Codeplay Software) talks about fast compilation of #SYCL for code generated at runtime.

So you want to support #SYCL? We’re finding out on the last day of #IWOCL in the invited talk from Ben Ashbaugh (Intel) on his personal perspective for supporting SYCL with #OpenCL.

Wow, workshops are now included in the #SC25 technical program registration. This is incredible; workshops are an invaluable place to have focused, deeply technical discussion and build community with a high concentration of like-minded individuals. sc25.supercomputing.org/2025/04/work... #HPC

More debugging talks at #IWOCL! This time for #OpenCL and #SYCL on CPUs where the code contains barriers. Presenting work from the team at Intel is Alexey Sachkov.

Tooling is a vital part of any programming ecosystem, and is particularly important for heterogeneous systems. Here at #IWOCL Rakesh Ganesh (Intel) shares work on debugging #SYCL on Intel GPUs in Visual Studio and VS Code.

Next up at #IWOCL, Aksel Alpay (Heidelberg University) talks about new Just-in-Time Optimisations in AdaptiveCpp for #SYCL. Ready to try in the latest compiler at github.com/AdaptiveCpp/...

Next up at #IWOCL, Moritz Heckmann (Saarland University) shows his approaches for implementing #SYCL sub-groups on CPUs.

The #SYCL backend to Kokkos was shared at #IWOCL last year, and Daniel Arndt (ORNL) is back this year to share experiences in targeting Frontier’s AMD GPUs with SYCL through Kokkos.

Alexey Sachkov (Intel) shares how they are working on SPIR-V backend support in LLVM towards a future where #SYCL can be supported upstream in LLVM directly. #IWOCL

Next, Alexey Sachkov (Intel) presents a vision for improving #SYCL compile times through changes to the SYCL header. #IWOCL

Day 2 of #IWOCL begins with State of the Union updates from #SYCL and #SYCL SC working groups. Here Lukas Sommer shares their update from SYCL SC bringing standard heterogeneous programming to safety critical systems.

Finishing today, Christoph Alt (Paderborn University) presents work evaluating #oneAPI I/O pipes in #SYCL for a Jacobi Solver on a FPGA Cluster. #IWOCL

Xavier Hallade and Stefan Werner present Blender and the Cycles renderer implemented in #SYCL for cross-vendor support for 3D rendering, shipping in Blender today. #IWOCL

GROMACS have been using #SYCL for a while now, and today, Andrey Alekseenko (KTH) and Ewan Crawford (Codeplay) present work using a SYCL-Graph extension (early versions of this have been presented at previous IWOCLs). This DPC++ extension is also used in Kokkos and Llama.cpp. #IWOCL

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

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

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

Jan Solanti (Tampere University) now shares his work on improving latency in PoCL-Remote at #IWOCL #OpenCL

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).

The 13th #IWOCL continues today with the first of two and a half days of presentations and papers, starting with a warm welcome from local hosts, Prof. Vincent Heuveline and Aksel Alpay from the University of Heidelberg.

Last up for Day 1 of the #IWOCL25 SYCL Hackathon is a tutorial from Igor Vorobtsov from Intel on porting CUDA to #SYCL with SYCLomatic

Next up at #IWOCL25, Aksel Alpay, local host here at Heidelberg University, presents tips, tricks, and best practices for using the AdaptiveCpp implementation of #SYCL he created.

The #IWOCL25 Hackathon starts with Thomas Applencourt from Argonne National Laboratory presenting his Walkthrough on the 9 Circles of #SYCL

IWOCL 2025 begins today in sunny Heidelberg, with 2 days of #SYCL Hackathon. Check out the programme at iwocl.org

Looking forward to all the great talks at the Inaugral Isambard Day hosted by the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing at University of Bristol. Lots of amazing science and AI happening on the 3 supercomputers. #BriCS

The full IWOCL 2025 program has now been published and early bird registration is open. We kick-off with a 2-day SYCL Hackathon & tutorials session, followed by a 3-day #opencl and #sycl conference. View the full program at khr.io/iwocl-program & register before Mar 23 for the early bird discount.

Here at the NetDRIVE Workshop, hosted by Queen Mary to join the discussions on Sustainable Supercomputing and Digital Research Infrastructure. eng.ox.ac.uk/netdrive/