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content/events/2024/2024-12-02-sycl-hackathon-at-cineca.md

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+contributor: max
+date: '2024-09-19T14:46:00'
+starts: '2024-12-02T13:00:10-0500'
+ends: '2024-12-04T14:00:10-0500'
+title: 'SYCL Hackathon @ CINECA'
+external_url: 'https://eventi.cineca.it/en/hpc/reserved-course/bologna-20241202'
+---
+
+The SYCL Hackathon @ CINECA is a multi-day, in-person event designed to help developer teams to port and/or
+optimize their codes for GPUs using the SYCL programming model. During the event developers will have the 
+chance to work alongside mentors and SYCL programming experts, which will guide them in porting and optimizing their 
+code.
+
+SYCL is an open-standard, cross-platform heterogeneous programming model that allows developers
+to write code in standard modern C++, while at the same time enabling them to reuse their code 
+on a huge variety of hardware accelerator targets (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs).
+
+Participants will also have to opportunity of using Leonardo, one of the most powerful 
+computers in the world (https://leonardo-supercomputer.cineca.eu/).

content/news/2024/2024-09-19-high-performance-flood-modelling-software-cuda-to-sycl.md

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+---
+contributor: rod
+date: '2024-09-19T14:10:22.153253'
+external_url: https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Tools/Migrating-High-performance-Flood-Modelling-Software-from-CUDA-to/post/1630530
+title: 'Migrating High-performance Flood Modelling Software from CUDA to SYCL with oneAPI'
+image: ../../../static/images/news/2024-09-19-intel-water.webp
+tags:
+  - oneapi
+  - sycl
+  - hpc
+  - portability
+---
+
+Floods cause enormous damage each year, posing significant threats to people and infrastructure. Due to climate change,
+we are seeing more frequent and severe flood events around the world. Hydrodynamic flood models are powerful tools to
+help with reducing flood risks. They can simulate the behaviour of water flow and the extent of flooding during a flood
+event. These models are essential for predicting floods and understanding flood risks, and ultimately help increase
+societal resilience.