Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'

Re:Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate... by hjabird on Thursday December 14, 2023 @03:52PM (#38647073)

SYCL isn't based on OpenCL.

SYCL (SYCL-2020 spec) supports multiple backends, including Nvidia's CUDA, AMD's HIP, OpenCL, Intel's Level-zero, and also running on the host CPU. This can either be done with Intel's DPC++ w/ Codeplay's plugins, or using AdaptiveCpp (aka. hipSYCL, aka openSYCL). OpenCL is just another backend.

It is also a very long way from OpenCL C++. The code is a single C++ file, and you don't need to write any special kernel language. The vast majority of SYCL is just C++, so -if you avoid a couple of features- you can use SYCL in library-only form without even any special compiler! This is possible for instance with AdaptiveCpp.

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Re:Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate... by pjmlp on Thursday December 14, 2023 @04:12PM (#38647314)

Now, but that isn't how it started after the OpenCL 3.0 reboot, where 3.0 == 1.0.

Also some of that work, we have to thank Codeplay for, before their acquistion from Intel.

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Re:Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate... by zozbot234 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @03:57PM (#38647137)

It's pretty much based on the same underlying featureset. Which is why trying to target Vulkan Compute from it is messy enough, whereas OpenCL is a natural target.

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