SYCL

Rob and Jason are joined by Gordon Brown to discuss his work on SYCL the OpenCL abstraction layer for C++.

Gordon is a senior software engineer at Codeplay Software in Edinburgh, specialising in designing and implementing heterogeneous programming models for C++. Gordon spends his days working on ComputeCpp; Codeplay's implementation of SYCL and contributing to various standards bodies including the Khronos group and ISO C++. Gordon also co-organises the Edinburgh C++ user group and occasionally blogs about C++. In his spare time, Gordon enjoys dabbling in game development, board games and walking with his two dogs.

News

• CppCon 2018 Poster Program Announced
• A bug in the C++ Standard
• Synapse submitted for Boost review
• New C++ London Uni Course Sept 18

Gordon Brown

• @AerialMantis
• Gordon Brown's blog

Links

• SYCL
• ComputeCpp
• Parallel Programming with Modern C++: from CPU to GPU
• P0443r7: A Unified Executors Proposal for C++
• CppCon 2017: Gordon Brown "Designing a Unified Interface for Execution"
• SYCL building blocks for C++ libraries - Gordon Brown - Meeting C++ 2016

Sponsors

• PVS-Studio
• February 31

Patreon

• CppCast Patreon

Hosts

• @robwirving
• @lefticus