Intel Releases OpenVKL 2.0 With Intel GPU Acceleration Via SYCL

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Releases OpenVKL 2.0 With Intel GPU Acceleration Via SYCL

Similar to Embree 4.0 adding Intel graphics acceleration earlier this year via SYCL, Intel's OpenVKL library that is also part of their oneAPI rendering toolkit has now added SYCL graphics aceleration with OpenVKL 2.0...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-OpenVKL-2.0

[timofonic]

What is this useful for?

high performance volume computation kernels.

What?

[stormcrow]

[B]What is this useful for?



What?

Not a typo. That's what "VKL" stands for "Volume Kernel Library".

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/videos/speed-volumetric-computations-apps-renderers.html

Gamers best know it as atmospheric effects like volumetric fog found in some games, but there's more to volumetric computing than ominously billowing fog effects.

[tildearrow]

And now a typo:

aceleration