Playing with Different Devices Through SYCL with oneAPI
toyBrot is a personal project that draws a fractal using raymarching. As a study tool, I reimplement it in different languages/models to explore parallelisation. In this talk, I go over my experiences with using Intel’s oneAPI toolkit to build and run my SYCL implementation of toyBrotfor different types of devices, going over the changes and challenges of expanding from previously using only hipSYCL
Speaker(s)
Jehferson Mello - Intel Software Innovator & Software Developer
I’m a software developer with a keen interest on parallelisation and heterogeneous computing. As a C++ and Open-Source nerd, I am very excited by Intel’s first party support of SYCL through oneAPI.
“I won’t lie, I am a bit wary of DPCPP, that it might end up heading into the J++ sort of direction. So far, though, it looks like Intel has been honest in their use of SYCL which, to me is extremely exciting. To me SYCL, as a very pleasant to code in standard from Khronos is where heterogenous computing standard should be moving towards, but other vendors seem to be quite intent on pretending it doesn’t exist, which is tremendously disappointing. The oneAPI toolchain seems to be maturing very rapidly. I only wish I could have an Intel GPU on my own workstation to play with it more closely, but for the time being, I’m watching with great anticipation” – Jehferson Mello
