Events 2025

content/events/2025/ieee-cluster-tutorial.md

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+contributor: max
+date: '2025-01-22T14:46:00'
+starts: '2025-09-02T14:00:00+01:00'
+ends: '2025-09-05T16:00:00+01:00'
+title: 'Write highly parallel, vendor neutral applications using C++ and SYCL'
+external_url: 'https://clustercomp.org/2025/tutorials/'
+---
+
+SYCL is an open standard from the Khronos Group and defines a programming model that lets
+developers support a wide variety of devices (CPUs, GPUs, and more) from a single code base.
+Given the growing heterogeneity of processor roadmaps in both HPC and AI, moving to an open standard,
+platform-independent model such as SYCL is essential for modern software developers. SYCL
+has the further advantage of supporting a single-source style of programming using completely
+standard C++. In this tutorial, we will introduce SYCL and provide programmers with a solid
+foundation they can build on to gain mastery of this language. The main benefit of using SYCL
+over other heterogeneous programming models is the single programming language approach, which
+enables one to target multiple devices using the same programming model, and therefore to have a
+cleaner, portable, and more readable code. This is a hands-on tutorial. The real learning will
+happen as students write code. The format will be short presentations followed by hands-on exercises. 
+Hence, attendees will require their own laptop to perform the hands-on exercises.

content/events/2025/introduction-developing-parallel-applications-sycl-isc.md

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+---
+contributor: max
+date: '2025-06-13T14:46:00'
+starts: '2025-06-13T14:00:00+01:00'
+ends: '2025-06-13T18:00:00+01:00'
+title: 'An introduction to developing highly parallel applications using C++ and SYCL'
+external_url: 'https://isc-hpc.com/program/schedule/'
+---
+
+Parallel programming can be used to take advantage of heterogeneous architectures
+including GPUs, FPGAs, XPUs, IPUs, TPUs or special units on CPUs to significantly
+increase the performance of applications. SYCL is an open standard programming model
+that is defined by the industry and lets developers support many of these processors from
+different vendors using a single code base and only modern standard C++ code.
+
+This tutorial will give software developers the knowledge they need to begin developing
+parallel applications using C++ and the SYCL programming model. Our goal is to equip
+attendees with the skills they need to build highly performant applications that can be used in
+the fields of HPC and AI and deployed to multiple hardware platforms.
+We will cover the fundamentals of the SYCL programming model before moving to more
+advanced topics. We will explore how SYCL can be used to write serious applications,
+covering intermediate to advanced features of SYCL as well as some of the tools and
+libraries that support SYCL application development.
+
+This is a hands-on tutorial, attendees will work through exercises that represent key design
+patterns encountered by people who program heterogeneous systems and deploy this code
+to multiple processors from different vendors.