Over the last couple of decades, the world of computer graphics has been growing at an amazing rate.  From animated movies to video games, consumers have reaped the benefits of these technological advances.  One of the latest algorithmic advances in [See the full post…]

The accelerator landscape has been rapidly changing over the past decade, and as super computers come online, they face the challenge of supporting the latest and greatest accelerators. Through use of C++. Kokkos and SYCL, the engineers working on the [See the full post…]

Today, Codeplay Software announces expanding oneAPI for Nvidia and AMD GPUs, making multiarchitecture, multivendor programming much easier. This includes new plugins: oneAPI for Nvidia GPUs and oneAPI for AMD GPUs (beta).

Software developers are increasingly looking to move away from [See the full post…]

Ever since its introduction in 2014, SYCL has grown in popularity and adoption. It is a royalty-free, cross-platform abstraction layer that enables code for heterogeneous processors, written in a “single-source” style using C++ standards.

The flexibility to deploy across multiple [See the full post…]

Scientific visualization (SciVis) is a process of representing raw scientific data as images, which helps scientists improve their interpretations of large data sets. More and more, advanced visualization tools are becoming an integral part of a researcher’s analysis toolkit; and [See the full post…]

Adoption of Python has been enormous over the last decade. Why? It’s easy to use, accessible, versatile and can be used for AI, machine learning, data analytics, data visualization, and all types of science. Tune into how 3 experts are [See the full post…]

Ginkgo is a production-ready, sparse linear algebra library used for HPC on GPU architectures. It’s now using oneAPI cross-architecture programming to support its foundational design with a high level of performance portability, and focus on software sustainability. ExpertsHartwig Anzt at [See the full post…]

Dr. Ruymán Reyes Castro, CTO at Codeplay Software, and Kevin Harms, Senior Software Developer at Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, talk about their collaboration with the National Energy for Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley Lab to enhance the [See the full post…]

Epistasis detection holds great promise for the prevention and treatment of diseases such as Alzheimer’s, diabetes and breast cancer. INESC-ID researchers Aleksander Ilic and Rafael Torres Campos are collaborating with other researchers and developers across Portugal through the HiPErBio Project [See the full post…]

“It’s really exciting to see all the sorts of things that are becoming smart in our daily lives,” remarks John Melonakos, CEO & co-founder of ArrayFire. In this episode, John talks about the challenges he sees as heavy computational workloads [See the full post…]

In this second episode about GROMACS, one of the world’s most widely used open source molecular dynamics (MD) applications, we explore the quest to simplify portable, performant programming with Erik Lindahl, Biophysics Professor at Stockholm University & KTH Royal Institute [See the full post…]

Open standards underpin the future of heterogeneous programming, and as Intel Principal Engineer Jeff Hammond points out, SYCL has proven in many ways that “standards don’t cost you a thing and you get portability.” A modern C++ language, SYCL has [See the full post…]

Andrew Lumsdaine, Chief Scientist at Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing, shares his journey in parallelism, from the HPC community’s early skepticism of and eventual move to C++ to build large systems, to his pursuit to develop a series of C++ [See the full post…]

Who better to have a spicy discussion with about #OpenMP than Tim Mattson and Bronis de Supinski? These two have truly lived at the forefront of the amazing, decades-long OpenMP journey, from its inception to its preeminence as a foundational [See the full post…]

Denisa Constantinescu, a PhD student in Mechatronics, and a researcher in the Computer Architecture Department at the University of Malaga, and Maura Tokay, a lead software programmer at Science Systems and Applications, Inc., and a computer scientist within the Department [See the full post…]

Dr. Tom Deakin, senior research associate and lecturer in the High-Performance Computing Research Group at the University of Bristol, and Dr. James Brodman, software engineer at Intel, unpack the tricky topic of performance portability to reveal what this concept truly [See the full post…]

In Part I of two episodes about GROMACS, one of the world’s most widely used open source molecular dynamics (MD) applications, Erik Lindahl, Biophysics Professor at Stockholm University & KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Roland Schulz, Parallel Software Engineer [See the full post…]

Krystian Ligenza, Autodesk Maya Software Architect, and Mike Voss, Intel Principal Engineer, talk about how the need for immersive experiences in VFX and 3D animated movies and games has driven the need for increasingly more capable (and complex) software and [See the full post…]

Is oneAPI living up to its promise? How do oneAPI and DPC++ relate to the Khronos Group SYCL and ISO C++ standards? Andrew Richards, Codeplay Software CEO, and Hal Finkel, Lead for Compiler Technology and Programming Languages at Argonne National [See the full post…]

Ronan Keryell, principal software engineer at Xilinx, and Jeff Hammond, principal engineer at Intel, explain why open collaboration — modeled through open source and open standards — is key to solving some of today’s biggest challenges in research and industry, [See the full post…]

Existing math kernel libraries have lacked portability across heterogeneous platforms—until now. A unifying programming model—and availability of standard library interfaces—enables development of performance-portable libraries among diverse hardware architectures. In this episode, Julia Sukharina, Senior Engineering Manager at Intel, and Mehdi [See the full post…]

In this episode of Code Together, Geoff Lowney, Senior Fellow at Intel, and Andrew Richards, CEO at Codeplay Software, discuss the value of standards in enabling hardware and software developers to collaborate and innovate. From the early days of video [See the full post…]

In this episode of Code Together, we talk to Alice Chan, Vice President and General Manager of Compiler Engineering at Intel, and Hal Finkel, Lead for Compiler Technology and Programming Languages at Argonne National Lab, about how the industry [See the full post…]