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Tom Deakin @tomdeakin.bsky.social · Aug 12

C++ is (nearly) all you need for HPC. Catch up on the talk I gave at an online seminar at Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

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C++ is (nearly) all you need for HPC

Speaker: Dr Tom Deakin, University of Bristol Slides: https://hpc.fau.de/files/2025/07/25_07_15_cpp_is_nearly_all_you_need.pdf Abstract: To write an HPC code, we use a serial programming language…

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Tom Deakin @tomdeakin.bsky.social · Jun 24

A nice summary, and a call to action, from the organisers of the PASC'25 Mini-Symposium on Application Perspective on SYCL, a Modern Programming Model for Performance and Portability
youtu.be/4K612eNB6cI
#APEROL #SYCL

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Tom Deakin @tomdeakin.bsky.social · Jun 18

#PASC25 continues this afternoon with the Aperol mini-symposium on Application Perspectives on #SYCL. pasc25.pasc-conference.org/session/?ses...

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szirallel.bsky.social @szirallel.bsky.social · Jun 17

If you are at PASC25, join us at the 3rd edition of the Application Perspective on SYCL (APerOL) ‪minisymposium @al42and.bsky.social‬ and I organize on June 18, 14:00 in room 5.2D02

Details on current & previous editions: kth-pdc.github.io/aperol
#PASC25 #portability #SYCL #HPC #scientificcomputing

Upcoming: PASC’25

The third minisymposium in the series will be organized at PASC’25 in a town of Brugg. Featuring talks by Peter Thoman, Abhishek Bagusetty, Markus Büttner, and Timothée David–Cléris.

kth-pdc.github.io

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Tom Deakin @tomdeakin.bsky.social · Jun 16

🇨🇭Attending #PASC25 for the first time. Looking forward to speaking at the “Empowering Interdisciplinary Collaboration through Reproducible Benchmarking” Mini-symposium tomorrow about Benchmarking the Three Ps: Performance, Portability, and Productivity
pasc25.pasc-conference.org/presentation...

Presentation - PASC 2025

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pasc25.pasc-conference.org

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Tom Deakin @tomdeakin.bsky.social · Jun 13

So long #ISC25!

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HPC Guru @hpcguru.bsky.social · Jun 11

All things, with one exception, have to end

After years of sharing #HPC news and insights, it's time to log off

It was fun while it lasted and I remain grateful to all of you who followed and interacted

Stay curious, stay kind!

— @hpcguru.bsky.social signing off

#HPC #Farewell

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Tom Deakin @tomdeakin.bsky.social · Jun 11

Oh no! You’ll be missed. Thanks for everything over the years and for all the retweets!

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Tom Deakin @tomdeakin.bsky.social · Jun 11

ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/110...
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doi.org/10.1109/P3HP...

Performance Portability Evaluation of Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulations on Heterogeneous Platforms

The rapid proliferation of heterogeneous programming languages and multi-vendor hardware has underscored the critical need to evaluate the performance portability of scientific applications. In this w...

ieeexplore.ieee.org

Tom Deakin @tomdeakin.bsky.social · Jun 11

Cool to see two papers explore #SYCL performance on CPUs at #ISC25. It’s also great to see how much the performance has improved thanks to the commitment to the #oneAPI and #AdaptiveCpp implementations since we evaluated this a few years ago.

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OpenMP ARB @openmp-arb.bsky.social · Jun 10

@nextsilicon.com has joined the OpenMP Architecture Review Board!

Their Intelligent Compute Architecture brings new momentum to our mission: advancing open, portable, shared-memory parallelism. Welcome to the community! 🌍💻

#OpenMP #HPC #NextSilicon

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Tom Deakin @tomdeakin.bsky.social · Jun 10

Here at #ISC25 in Hamburg this week. I’ll be speaking about open standards at the Birds of a Feather Sessions (#OpenMP and #UXL Foundation) and sharing (alongside #NVIDIA) how to program GPUs with standard #C++.
Looking forward to catching up with this great community.
#HPC

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Tom Deakin @tomdeakin.bsky.social · May 22

10 years of open standard heterogeneous parallel programming in C++ with #SYCL
www.khronos.org/blog/a-decad...

A Decade of Heterogeneous C++ Compute Acceleration with SYCL

The Khronos® Group is celebrating a significant milestone as SYCL™ marks its tenth anniversary. First ratified and published in May 2015, SYCL has grown from an ambitious specification to a cornerston...

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OpenCL @opencl.bsky.social · May 8

In this new blog, we look at OpenCL at last month's IWOCL 2025. The event confirmed that OpenCL continues to evolve and thrives as a critical foundation for cross-platform, high-performance computing across industries.

Learn more: khr.io/1iu

OpenCL in Action: Highlights from IWOCL 2025’s Celebration of Industry-Driven Innovation

The 13th International Workshop on OpenCL™ and SYCL™ (IWOCL 2025), held from April 7–11 in Heidelberg, Germany, brought together a vibrant community of developers, researchers, and industry profession...

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Tom Deakin @tomdeakin.bsky.social · Apr 28

The recordings and slides from the IXPUG 2025 conference are up! Some great talks to watch all about leveraging open standards for accelerated compute.
www.ixpug.org/events/ixpug...
#OpenMP #SYCL

IXPUG Annual Conference 2025 | IXPUG

Join the IXPUG Annual Conference 2025, hosted by TACC, for expert insights. Connect with leaders and explore innovations.

www.ixpug.org

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Tom Deakin @tomdeakin.bsky.social · Apr 16

At #IWOCL I had the pleasure of sharing the update from the #SYCL Working Group on all things SYCL past, present, and future.

Rob Mueller-Albrecht @roboima.bsky.social · Apr 16

#SYCL is growing ever more powerful, supporting multi-architecture accelerated compute for #Edge, #HPC, and #AI use cases on more and more diverse devices.

Check out the State of the Union keynote from #IWOCL 2025.

youtu.be/qZSbqbFNmpU

SYCL State of the Union

YouTube video by IWOCL

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Tom Deakin @tomdeakin.bsky.social · Apr 16

If you’re interested in getting fluid codes running fast on GPUs, be sure to check out this role with Ben Thornber at Queen's University Belfast.
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
#Kokkos

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SYCL @khronos-sycl.bsky.social · Apr 7

On April 29, 2025, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) will hold a webinar covering the process of porting CUDA code to SYCL, with a focus on high-performance math libraries like cuBLAS and cuFFT.

Learn more and register: events.cels.anl.gov/event/643/

Transitioning from CUDA to SYCL

Join us on April 29, 2025, for a webinar covering the process of porting CUDA code to SYCL, with a focus on high-performance math libraries like cuBLAS and cuFFT. ALCF's Thomas Applencourt and Abhishe...

events.cels.anl.gov

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