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triSYCL is an open source implementation to experiment with the specification of the SYCL C++ layer and to give feedback to the Khronos Group SYCL and OpenCL C++ 2.2 kernel language committees and also to the ISO C++ committee.
This SYCL implementation is mainly based on C++17 and OpenMP or TBB for execution on the CPU, with Boost.Compute for the non single-source OpenCL interoperability layer and with LLVM/Clang for the device compiler providing full single-source SYCL experience, typically targeting a SPIR device. Since in SYCL there is a host fall-back, this CPU implementation can be seen as an implementation of this fall-back too...
For legal reasons, the specification used for this open source project is the published current provisional specification and not the last one currently discussed in the Khronos SYCL committee. If you are a Khronos member, you can access to https://gitlab.khronos.org/sycl/triSYCL where you might find more futuristic branches.
This is provided as is, without any warranty, with the same license as LLVM/Clang.
There is also a new project about merging the Intel SYCL implementation with triSYCL at https://github.com/triSYCL/sycl to give a greater user experience.
Technical lead: Ronan at keryell point FR. Developments started first at AMD and are now mainly funded by Xilinx.
It is possible to have a paid internship around triSYCL, if you have some skills related to this project. Contact the technical lead about this. Xilinx is also hiring in this area... :-)
SYCL is a single-source modern C++-based DSEL (Domain Specific Embedded Language) aimed at facilitating the programming of heterogeneous accelerators by leveraging the OpenCL language and concepts.
A typical kernel with its launch looks like this pure modern C++ code:
queue {}.submit([&](handler &h) {
auto accA = bufA.get_access<access::mode::read>(h);
auto accB = bufB.get_access<access::mode::write>(h);
h.parallel_for<class myKernel>(myRange, [=](item i) {
accA[i] = accB[i] + 1;
});
});Look for example at https://github.com/triSYCL/triSYCL/blob/master/tests/examples/demo_parallel_matrix_add.cpp for a complete example.
Note that even if the concepts behind SYCL are inspired by OpenCL concepts, the SYCL programming model is a very general asynchronous task graph model for heterogeneous computing with no relation with OpenCL itself, except when using the OpenCL API interoperability mode.
SYCL is developed inside the Khronos SYCL committee and thus, for more information on SYCL, look at http://www.khronos.org/sycl
For the SYCL ecosystem, look at http://sycl.tech
Please see about SYCL to have some context, a list of presentations, some related projects.
SYCL is a template library, so no real installation is required.
There are some examples you can build however.
See Testing.
Architecture of triSYCL runtime and compiler describes the code base with some high-level diagrams but also how to compile and use the device compiler on some Xilinx FPGA for example.
Some details about CMake configuration and organization can be found in CMake.
Yes, there are some macros used in triSYCL! Look at Pre-processor macros used in triSYCL to discover some of them.
Environment variables used in triSYCL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
See Environment variables with triSYCL.
See Possible futures.
The documentation of the triSYCL implementation itself can be found in http://trisycl.github.io/triSYCL/Doxygen/triSYCL/html and http://trisycl.github.io/triSYCL/Doxygen/triSYCL/triSYCL-implementation-refman.pdf
- 2018/03/12: the long-going device compiler branch has been merged in to provide experimental support for SPIR-df friendly devices, such as PoCL or Xilinx FPGA. This is only for the brave for now.
- 2018/02/01: there is now some documentation about the architecture of triSYCL on GPU and accelerators with its device compiler based on Clang/LLVM in doc/architecture.rst. While this is wildly experimental, there is a growing interest around it and it is always useful to get started as a contributor.
- 2018/01/05: there are some internship openings at Xilinx to work on triSYCL for FPGA https://xilinx.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/compiler-engineer-intern-on-sycl-for-fpga-4685 and more generally Xilinx is hiring in compilation, runtime, C++, SYCL, OpenCL, machine-learning...
- 2017/12/06: the brand-new SYCL 1.2.1 specification is out and triSYCL starts moving to it
- 2017/11/17: the presentations and videos from SC17 on SYCL and triSYCL are now online https://www.khronos.org/news/events/supercomputing-2017
- 2017/09/19: there is a prototype of device compiler based on Clang/LLVM generating SPIR 2.0 "de facto" (SPIR-df) and working at least with PoCL and Xilinx SDx xocc for FPGA.
- 2017/03/03: triSYCL can use CMake &
ctestand works on Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2017. It works also with Ubuntu WSL on Windows. :-) More info - 2017/01/12: Add test case using the Xilinx compiler for FPGA
- 2016/11/18: If you missed the free SYCL T-shirt on the Khronos booth during SC16, you can always buy some on https://teespring.com/khronos-hpc (lady's sizes available, so no excuse! :-) )
- 2016/08/12: OpenCL kernels can be run with OpenCL kernel interoperability mode now.
- 2016/04/18: SYCL 2.2 provisional specification is out. This version implement SYCL 2.2 pipes and reservations plus the blocking pipe extension from Xilinx.