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
SYCL
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SYCL is an open, royalty-free, cross-platform abstraction layer that enables code for heterogeneous and offload processors to be written using modern ISO C++, and provides APIs and abstractions. https://www.khronos.org/sycl/
IWOCL 2026 is next week! Join the global OpenCL and SYCL community in Heilbronn, Germany (May 6–8) for the premier forum dedicated to open compute languages and heterogeneous platform programming. The program includes the latest technical talks, Khronos […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
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
Emissive Materials in FunGT Added emissive material support to my path tracer. Surfaces can now emit light, working across both the real-time OpenGL viewport and the physically-based SYCL/CUDA renderer. @khronos-sycl.bsky.social #CUDA
The IWOCL 2026 program is live! The 14th International Workshop on OpenCL and SYCL is coming to Heilbronn, Germany this May 6–8, and the full conference program has just been published at iwocl.org. This year's lineup is packed. Whether you're working on […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
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
The SYCL Working Group has announced the release of Revision 11 of the SYCL 2020 Specification, introducing eight powerful new extensions alongside numerous specification clarifications. Learn more: www.khronos.org/blog/khronos... #SYCL
Good morning from sunny St. Louis! Today is a great day for #SC25! There are plenty of SYCL sessions to choose from today. Check our website to find the right session(s) for you: www.khronos.org/events/super... #HPC #SYCL
Join us next week! Click through to see all the SYCL sessions at #SC25!
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
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
Khronos will be at GISC 2025! Khronos President, Neil Trevett, will be giving a keynote address and a session on Khronos Group's current status regarding AI-related standardization. In addition, there will be a SYCL session on PIM utilization. Learn more: www.khronos.org/events/gisc-... #gisc
GISC 2025
Deploying and developing royalty-free open standards for 3D graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Parallel Computing, Neural Networks, and Vision Processing
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Intel Upstreams libsycl SYCL Runtime Library Into LLVM - https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Upstream-libsycl
Intel Upstreams libsycl SYCL Runtime Library Into LLVM
For several years now Intel has been working on SYCL support within LLVM and various related efforts like the LLVM SPIR-V back-end as part of their oneAPI ambitions and Data Parallel C++ across their spectrum of hardware. The latest hitting upstream LLVM is libsycl as a SYCL run-time library...
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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
🎉 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
IWOCL 2025 was a great success with many great SYCL sessions from exascale hydrodynamics for astrophysics to Kokkos' SYCL backend, and more! Check out the slides and recordings for all the sessions at: www.iwocl.org/iwocl-2025/c...
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...
🗞️ Read all about it! News update with latest on #SYCL including a view of the future roadmap. https://buff.ly/3Z6pVeh
Khronos Releases SYCL Rev 9 Specification and Roadmap Updates for SC24 Conference
The SYCL™ Working Group at Khronos® has been hard at work advancing the ecosystem for this open, royalty-free, cross-platform abstraction layer that enables code for heterogeneous and offload…
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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/
Transitioning from CUDA to SYCL
Join us on April 29, 2025, for a webinar covering the process of porting CUDA code to SYCL, with a focus on high-performance math libraries like cuBLAS and cuFFT. ALCF's Thomas Applencourt and Abhishe...
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Blog from @codeplaysoftware.bsky.social on SYCL bindless images. Check it out at: codeplay.com/portal/blogs...
SYCL Bindless Images - An Introduction
PrefaceSYCL is a modern high-level programming model with a focus on enablinghardware-accelerated compute capabilities across every manner of device andplatf...
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In this @codeplaysoftware.bsky.social blog, they examine the limitations of the current SYCL images API design and demonstrate how the bindless images extension addresses these challenges. codeplay.com/portal/blogs...
SYCL Bindless Images - An Introduction
PrefaceSYCL is a modern high-level programming model with a focus on enablinghardware-accelerated compute capabilities across every manner of device andplatf...
codeplay.com
HiPEAC 2025 kicks off next week and we're excited to be featured in two great sessions on Safety Critical and developing highly parallel applications. If you're attending HiPEAC in Barcelona, be sure to come and see us! More information in this sessions: www.khronos.org/events/hipea...
HiPEAC 2025
Deploying and developing royalty-free open standards for 3D graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Parallel Computing, Neural Networks, and Vision Processing
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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