Codeplay are attending the Computer Science Seminar Series, Heriot Watt University, 2020

20 February 2020

Duncan McBain, Staff Software Engineer, will be providing an abstract on developing parallel applications with SYCL™, an open standards alternative to CUDA, at Heriot Watt University on the 27th February from 4.15pm to 5.15pm.

Computer system architecture trends are constantly evolving to provide higher performance and computing power, to support the increasing demand for high-performance computing domains including AI, machine learning, image processing and automotive driving aids.

Duncan's talk will introduce application development using the SYCL programming model. SYCL allows users to write standard C++ code which is then executed on a range of heterogeneous architectures including CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, FPGAs and other accelerators. On top of this SYCL also provides a high-level abstraction which allows users to describe their computations as a task graph with data dependencies, while the SYCL runtime performs data dependency analysis and scheduling. SYCL also supports a host device which will execute on the host CPU with the same execution and memory model guarantees as OpenCL for debugging purposes, and a fallback mechanism which allows an application to recover from failure.

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