As someone who maintains a fair number of software packages that build, in one way or an other, on OpenCL (and keeps creating more!), a friend recently asked me what I thought of the state of the OpenCL ecosystem in 2018. In part, I am writing this to support the …

Nvidia's Parallel Forall blog recently highlighted two applications that are using my Python HPC packages to accelerate their computational science workloads:

• Increasing the Luminosity of Beam Dynamics with GPUs, a writeup of Adrian Oeftiger's work on CERN's PyHEADTAIL code.

• Open, Reproducible Computational Chemistry with Python and CUDA a writeup …

At SC15 last week I had the opportunity to present a tutorial on how to design, build, and compile your own domain-specific language using Python. I am now releasing the tutorial material under a Creative Commons license for the community to use and build on.

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Specifically, the material …

Gaston Hillar has written a very nice introductory article on using PyOpenCL, to be part of a two-part series. I'm already looking forward to the second part. :)

If you'd like to try to follow along with the article, check out the OpenCL installation howto, then follow the easy installation instructions …

Simon McIntosh-Smith from Bristol University just let me know that he and Tom Deakin have published a new set of lecture slides and excercises (with solutions!) to teach (more generally) OpenCL and (specifically) PyOpenCL. I've added a link to this and a few older tutorials to

PyOpenCL's main documentation page …

After many long weeks (months, really) spent applying for and searching for the right job, white smoke! (sorry, couldn't resist) I will be joining Luke Olson, Bill Gropp, Mike Heath and everyone else in the Scientific Computing Group at the Computer Science Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign …

This October I had the honor of presenting my work on using Python with GPUs at PyData NYC 2012.

There was also a panel discussion on Python+Parallel that I was a part of--great fun.

Also be sure to check out all the videos of the other great talks to …

Like last year, I had the honor of being invited to present PyCUDA and PyOpenCL along with a few examples of their use to a great crowd at Nvidia's inaugural GPU Technology Conference 2010.

Please click the following link to view the slides: PyCUDA and PyOpenCL at Nvidia GTC …