Heterogeneous Programming in C++ Today

Explore the evolving landscape of heterogeneous parallelism in this comprehensive conference talk from ACCU 2018. Delve into the reasons behind the global push for massive parallelism in base languages and examine how various standards and specifications are adapting to this trend. Gain insights into how current programming models are addressing the needs of future technologies such as the Internet of Things, self-driving cars, and machine learning. Discover an in-depth overview of C and C++'s efforts to incorporate parallelism, and learn about the Khronos OpenCL/SYCL consortium's initiatives in advancing high-level Modern C++ language support for GPU/Accelerator and SIMD programming. Understand how these developments are expected to converge in future C++ standards, including C++20 proposals like executors and affinity, as presented by the chair of WG2's SG14.