The International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL – "eye-wok-ul") is an annual conference that brings together the community of

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users, researchers, developers and suppliers to share OpenCL best practices and help advance the use of the

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OpenCL standard for the parallel programming of heterogeneous systems. Participation at IWOCL is open to anyone who is interested in contributing to, and participating in the OpenCL community including developers working with the many APIs, tools and libraries built on OpenCL, including the Khronos SPIR (Standard Portable Intermediate Representation) and

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(C++ abstraction layer).

Technical program and submissions

A Call for Sessions usually goes out in the Autumn before the event the following May. The technical program comprises research papers (published in the ACM Conference Series), technical presentations and posters, preceded by a day of workshops. All submissions are reviewed by a Technical Committee comprising world-leaders in the field of OpenCL and Heterogeneous computing.

Event History and Dates

The International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL) is now in its 10th year with the first event taking place at Georgia Tech, USA on May 13–14, 2013

Event organization

IWOCL is a community led, not-for profit event chaired b
Simon McIntosh-Smith
Professor in High Performance Computing and Head of the Microelectronics Group a
Bristol University

References

External links

IWOCL Official Site

Official site for the Khronos OpenCL Standard
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