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See you at #IWOCL 2026! Keep an eye on iwocl.org for updates, and the archive for this and previous conferences. #OpenCL #SYCL

The #IWOCL 2025 Outstanding Full Paper Award Winner, Peter Thoman (UIBK) presents their work on optimising strided data movement across GPUs with Celerity and #SYCL

Just running compute with #SYCL is great but you always want to *SEE* the output. Duncan Brawley (Codeplay Software) is presenting interoperability for images with the DirectX and Vulkan Graphics APIs. #IWOCL

Virtual functions are important to C++ programs. Alexey Sachkov (Intel) proposes how #SYCL can by updated to remove the current restriction on this to make it work for those (like Kokkos) asking for it. #IWOCL

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Next up at #IWOCL, Julian Oppermann (Codeplay Software) talks about fast compilation of #SYCL for code generated at runtime.

So you want to support #SYCL? We’re finding out on the last day of #IWOCL in the invited talk from Ben Ashbaugh (Intel) on his personal perspective for supporting SYCL with #OpenCL.

More debugging talks at #IWOCL! This time for #OpenCL and #SYCL on CPUs where the code contains barriers. Presenting work from the team at Intel is Alexey Sachkov.

Tooling is a vital part of any programming ecosystem, and is particularly important for heterogeneous systems. Here at #IWOCL Rakesh Ganesh (Intel) shares work on debugging #SYCL on Intel GPUs in Visual Studio and VS Code.

Next up at #IWOCL, Aksel Alpay (Heidelberg University) talks about new Just-in-Time Optimisations in AdaptiveCpp for #SYCL. Ready to try in the latest compiler at github.com/AdaptiveCpp/...

Next up at #IWOCL, Moritz Heckmann (Saarland University) shows his approaches for implementing #SYCL sub-groups on CPUs.

The #SYCL backend to Kokkos was shared at #IWOCL last year, and Daniel Arndt (ORNL) is back this year to share experiences in targeting Frontier’s AMD GPUs with SYCL through Kokkos.

Alexey Sachkov (Intel) shares how they are working on SPIR-V backend support in LLVM towards a future where #SYCL can be supported upstream in LLVM directly. #IWOCL

Next, Alexey Sachkov (Intel) presents a vision for improving #SYCL compile times through changes to the SYCL header. #IWOCL

Day 2 of #IWOCL begins with State of the Union updates from #SYCL and #SYCL SC working groups. Here Lukas Sommer shares their update from SYCL SC bringing standard heterogeneous programming to safety critical systems.

Finishing today, Christoph Alt (Paderborn University) presents work evaluating #oneAPI I/O pipes in #SYCL for a Jacobi Solver on a FPGA Cluster. #IWOCL

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Xavier Hallade and Stefan Werner present Blender and the Cycles renderer implemented in #SYCL for cross-vendor support for 3D rendering, shipping in Blender today. #IWOCL

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GROMACS have been using #SYCL for a while now, and today, Andrey Alekseenko (KTH) and Ewan Crawford (Codeplay) present work using a SYCL-Graph extension (early versions of this have been presented at previous IWOCLs). This DPC++ extension is also used in Kokkos and Llama.cpp. #IWOCL

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Timothée David Cléris presents Shamrock: a Hydrodynamics (mainly Smooth Particle Hydro) Astrophysics code implemented using #SYCL #IWOCL

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Next up at #IWOCL, Siva Rama Krishna Reddy B and colleagues from Qualcomm share their work on Deep Learning Compilers on Adreno GPUs

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Hongqiang Wang (Qualcomm) presenting work at #IWOCL on their optimised #OpenCL backend for the open-source llama.cpp large language model (LLM).

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Jan Solanti (Tampere University) now shares his work on improving latency in PoCL-Remote at #IWOCL #OpenCL

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A key part of #IWOCL are State of the Union updates on the programming models from the Khronos Working Groups. First up, #OpenCL, presented by Ben Ashbaugh (Intel).

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117B grid cell simulation running using #OpenCL on a single system with two Xeon 6 with MRDRAM!!! #IWOCL

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Next up at #IWOCL, we welcome our Keynote Speaker, Moritz Lehmann (Intel) to talk about his FluidX3D Lattice Boltzmann CFD software, written in #OpenCL. Sharing amazing optimisations to improve memory use and access.

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The 13th #IWOCL continues today with the first of two and a half days of presentations and papers, starting with a warm welcome from local hosts, Prof. Vincent Heuveline and Aksel Alpay from the University of Heidelberg.

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Last up for Day 1 of the #IWOCL25 SYCL Hackathon is a tutorial from Igor Vorobtsov from Intel on porting CUDA to #SYCL with SYCLomatic

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Next up at #IWOCL25, Aksel Alpay, local host here at Heidelberg University, presents tips, tricks, and best practices for using the AdaptiveCpp implementation of #SYCL he created.

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The #IWOCL25 Hackathon starts with Thomas Applencourt from Argonne National Laboratory presenting his Walkthrough on the 9 Circles of #SYCL

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