The Khronos Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies, announces the immediate availability of the OpenCL™ 2.2, SYCL™ 2.2 and SPIR-V™ 1.1 provisional specifications. OpenCL 2.2 incorporates the OpenCL C++ kernel language for significantly enhanced parallel programming productivity. SYCL 2.2 enables host and device code to be contained in a single source file, while leveraging the full power of OpenCL C++. SPIR-V 1.1 extends the intermediate representation defined by Khronos with native support for shader and compute kernel features to fully support the OpenCL C++ kernel language. These new specifications can be found at www.khronos.org and are released in provisional form to enable developers and implementers to provide feedback before finalization, including at the Khronos forums.

This blog post is first in the series of “how-to” articles on developing and porting applications using SYCL for OpenCL.

Codeplay Software today announced ComputeCpp, an easy-to-use standards-based product for lowering the power consumption and increasing the performance of C++ software. The first commercial release of ComputeCpp will support SYCL for OpenCL, the open-standard C++ programming model from The Khronos Group. SYCL allows C++ application developers to write high-performance modern C++ and deploy it to multiple processor cores without hardware-specific rewrites or optimizations. The Khronos Group just released SYCL 1.2 Final Specification.

The Khronos Group announced the ratification and public release of the finalized SYCL 1.2 specification. SYCL for OpenCL enables code for heterogeneous processors to be written in a “single-source” style using completely standard C++. The multi-vendor SYCL 1.2 standard is available royalty-free for industry use, and the full specification together with details about the SYCL conformance test suite and Adopters Program can be found on the Khronos Group SYCL page.

The Khronos Group today announced the ratification and public release of updated OpenCL 2.0 and Provisional SYCL 1.2 specifications. The new specifications integrate feedback from the developer community, align with the latest C++ developments, and increase implementation consistency for improved portability of heterogeneous parallel applications. The latest OpenCL and SYCL specifications are open, royalty-free and available today.

This is my pitch for SYCL, which I hope helps you understand what SYCL means for C++ OpenCL programmers. This is not associated with Khronos in any way, and is my own opinion on the SYCL 1.2 specification. Additional OpencL training videos are available online. The SYCL provisional specification is available online.

At the Multicore Developer’s Conference on Thursday May 8th, the chair of the SYCL working group will be presenting the new SYCL C++ layer for OpenCL along with examples of how it can be used in real-world software for acceleration on heterogeneous multicore devices.

The Khronos Group today announced a number of new and significant updates to its portfolio of open, royalty free industry standards that enable the authoring and acceleration of parallel computing, graphics, vision, sensor processing and dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices:

• OpenGL® ES 3.1 Specification Released – The next leap in mobile & embedded graphics
• WebCL™ 1.0 Specification Released – Browser-based heterogeneous compute acceleration
• SYCL™ 1.2 Provisional Specification Released – Enabling high-level C++ tools for OpenCL
• OpenCL™ 2.0 Adopters Program Launched – Driving OpenCL 2.0 conformance
• EGL™ 1.5 Specification Released – The essential glue for secure, integrated API rendering

The Khronos Group today announced the release of SYCL 1.2 as a provisional specification to enable community feedback. SYCL is a royalty-free, cross-platform abstraction layer that enables the development of applications and frameworks that build on the underlying concepts, portability and efficiency of OpenCL, while adding the ease-of-use and flexibility of C++. Feedback is welcome and encouraged on the official feedback forum.