SimSYCL: A SYCL Implementation Targeting Development, Debugging, Simulation and Conformance
Peter Thoman, Fabian Knorr, Luigi Crisci · 2024
The open SYCL standard has established itself as a cross-vendor, cross-platform means to develop software which benefits from GPU and accelerator parallelism. Inherent difficulties in portability between and debuggability of programs for these targets remain. However, as we demonstrate, the SYCL specification lends itself to be implemented purely in software in a manner that is accessible to debuggers and which can be employed to simulate the characteristics of different hardware targets.