Dear UXL Foundation Community Members,
We are excited to send our first UXL Foundation newsletter. We expect this to be a regular newsletter to give you an update on progress and opportunities for you to participate in foundation activities.
We are also delighted to welcome new contributor members: Akhetonics, Axelera, Fixstars, Market Potential, XIANGDIXIAN Computing Technology. We look forward to having you in the UXL Community!
There has been some recent coverage of the UXL Foundation in the press and while this has been welcome attention, the articles did not really focus on the primary objectives of the foundation, and I’d like to talk a bit about this.
The adoption of accelerators, such as GPUs, has been increasing in the past 5 years and this is reflected in the growth of AI and the majority of new supercomputer architectures. Our goal for the UXL Foundation is to define and build a platform that can be used to develop software regardless of architecture or vendor and achieve this by using industry defined open standards alongside open source development. The movement we are creating is about offering an open ecosystem that delivers equally across all processors.
To achieve this, we need to engage with and collaborate across the industry, and that is where you can help. Bringing together companies designing processors and software developers looking for performance has historically been the best way to deliver success. We are able to build on the oneAPI specification and open source implementations, initially talked about 5 years ago at SC19, to expand the contributions to these. We will also collaborate with other standards bodies and foundations, and will be announcing some of these soon.
Contributions
We were very excited to receive a major contribution from Fujitsu adding an Arm CPU target to the oneDAL project. This adds to the existing oneDNN Arm CPU contributions.
Requests for Feedback
Your feedback is welcome on the latest discussions:
Join the Slack channels for discussions on the projects, specs and groups.
This month, the UXL Foundation will participate in the hackfest at IWOCL in Chicago, Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany; and the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America in Seattle.
Looking forward to hearing from you & best regards,
Rod Burns, Chairperson, UXL Foundation Steering Committee
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