In previous Aero blog posts [1, 2] we learned how the Gaia team at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) utilizes TornadoVM developed by the University of Manchester to accelerate a signal processing algorithm for large scale variable star classification for the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission. However, besides the computational challenge described in the previous blog posts, there also exists a data challenge in dealing with the vast...

What is the oneAPI Construction Kit? As part of the AERO Project, Codeplay is contributing development on the oneAPI Construction Kit, an open-source, standards-based framework for bringing open ecosystems to new accelerators. This allows hardware vendors to bring the SYCL programming model and oneAPI libraries to their hardware for heterogeneous performance. In the context of AERO, this will enable SYCL and OpenCL on the Rhea1 processor from SiPearl,...