Sponsored: SYCL: Open Your Code to More Hardware Choices

SYCL is a Khronos standard that introduces support for fully heterogeneous data parallelism to C++ and a solution to one aspect of a larger problem: How do we enable full heterogeneous programming given the emerging explosion in hardware diversity? SYCL uses generic programming with templates and generic lambda functions to enable higher-level application software to be cleanly coded with optimized acceleration of kernel code across the extensive range of various acceleration APIs, e.g. OpenCL. Developers program at a higher level than the native acceleration API, but always have access to lower-level code through seamless integration with the native acceleration API. We will talk on SYCL basics and show the case of the successful tsunami simulation code migration to SYCL and new opportunities it may bring to developers by unlocking other hardware vendors and architectures with reasonable performance.