Intel's oneAPI / DPC++ / SYCL Will Run Atop NVIDIA GPUs With Open-Source Layer

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's oneAPI / DPC++ / SYCL Will Run Atop NVIDIA GPUs With Open-Source Layer

With yesterday's much anticipated Intel oneAPI beta being built around open-source standards like SYCL, the "cross-device" support can at least in theory extend beyond just Intel platforms. Codeplay is already showing that's possible with a to-be-open-source layer that will allow oneAPI and SYCL / Data Parallel C++ to run atop NVIDIA GPUs via CUDA...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-oneAPI-DPC-SYCL-NVIDIA-CU

[pal666]

lol, opensource and nvidia in one sentence

[coder]

But with Intel working to contribute their SYCL back-end to upstream LLVM

Wouldn't it be a SYCL front-end?

I'm expecting toolchains that ingest SYCL to basically transform it into OpenCL, at which point you have both a normal C++ CPU compiler backend and OpenCL GPU compiler backend.

[HadrienG]

lol, opensource and nvidia in one sentence

Obviously that they are not the ones doing the work :P