Rob and Jason are joined by Gordon Brown to discuss his work on SYCL the OpenCL abstraction layer for C++.

Gordon is a senior software engineer at Codeplay Software in Edinburgh, specialising in designing and implementing heterogeneous programming models for C++. Gordon spends his days working on ComputeCpp; Codeplay's implementation of SYCL and contributing to various standards bodies including the Khronos group and ISO C++. Gordon also co-organises the Edinburgh C++ user group and occasionally blogs about C++. In his spare time, Gordon enjoys dabbling in game development, board games and walking with his two dogs.

News * CppCon 2018 Poster Program Announced * A bug in the C++ Standard * Synapse submitted for Boost review * New C++ London Uni Course Sept 18

Gordon Brown * @AerialMantis * Gordon Brown's blog

Links * SYCL * ComputeCpp * Parallel Programming with Modern C++: from CPU to GPU * P0443r7: A Unified Executors Proposal for C++ * CppCon 2017: Gordon Brown "Designing a Unified Interface for Execution" * SYCL building blocks for C++ libraries - Gordon Brown - Meeting C++ 2016

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Hosts * @robwirving * @lefticus