Intel XPU Development Process

[asglover]

@abagusetty I was wondering if you could comment on how you get access to Intel hardware for software development? and how you want to handle features for intel SYCL going forward.

Using the feature that I'm working on now, but we can pretend it's a generic feature.

I'm trying to refactor our symmetric contraction to no longer us BLAS and instead use the pytorch bmm op. This should make it possible to support symmetric contraction for SYCL too. so how do you want to handle this?

I could:

• try to code the feature for SYCL and ask for validation
• Leave the feature un-implemented for SYCL

What would you prefer?

Additionally, do you have any idea if intel or anyone would be willing to donate dev cloud access? If I have access, I'd be happy to just learn SYCL and try to fully implement the features in SYCL directly?

• Austin

[abagusetty]

Hi @asglover Austin, We can sponsor a collaborator account on ALCF systems that can provide you access to ALCF Aurora (Intel PVC). We will send an email to your berkeley.edu if that helps

[asglover]

That would be really great, that would make it easy to also check new features on SYCL. Nice! Thank you!