Re: GSOC 2021 Idea Discussion

On 3/18/21 4:18 AM, Atharva Dubey wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am Atharva Dubey and have been using octave for a while now. A quick 
> introduction about me, technically, I am quite familiar and well 
> versed in the field of machine learning algorithms.  I am also a 
> parallel computing enthusiast and have worked OpenMP, SYCL and a 
> little bit of CUDA as well and I am proficient with C++ as well as 
> Python.
>
> For GSoC 2021, I propose a machine learning library with hardware 
> acceleration support, for a variety of devices, let it be AMD GPUs, 
> FPGAs ASICs etc., etc and I propose this using SYCL. I have already 
> started on it(it is not quite ready yet) and you could find it here - 
> https://github.com/AD2605/SYCML <https://github.com/AD2605/SYCML>
>
> please let me know your feedback and whether it a good plan and how to 
> proceed with it.
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
It would be great if SYCL was accessible from Octave, but you seem to 
use the Codeplay implementation which appears not to be under a GPL 
compatible license required by Octave.

https://sycl.tech/#get-sycl

lists other implementations, like triSYCL which may be more 
license-compatible.