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Unified Acceleration Foundation

Join us in building an open, standards-based, cross-architecture approach for accelerated computing that improves performance, portability, and time-to-market.

Advancing accelerated computing by simplifying cross-platform application development

Heterogeneous architectures introduce development complexity and performance challenges that slow innovation. The UXL Foundation enables cross-industry collaboration on a shared, open, vendor-neutral accelerator programming standard and open source projects that deliver portable, high-performance code to overcome these barriers.

Standardization

UXL members and collaborators build and maintain an open standard for developing applications that provide portability and performance across accelerators and generations of hardware.

Open Source

Working Groups and Special Interest Groups organize community contributions and best practices to steward and scale open source projects and implementations based on the specification.

Collaboration

The UXL community supports radical collaboration across the ecosystem to evolve the shared, open standard and accelerate development of innovative, data-centric solutions for a range of use cases.

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A common developer experience across accelerator architectures

Write source code once and deploy it across accelerators and generations of hardware, regardless of vendor

oneAPI is an open, multiarchitecture, multivendor programming model that lets developers use a single modern codebase across accelerators for faster application performance, more productivity, and greater innovation.

Jump-start development on heterogeneous systems

Begin prototyping and integrating oneAPI into existing workflows with open source SDKs, libraries, and tools that implement oneAPI specification elements and feature the latest optimizations.

See how others are applying oneAPI to real world workloads

Explore case studies that detail how organizations use oneAPI to achieve tangible performance gains, simplify code paths, and streamline deployment across multivendor environments.

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11 June 2025 UTC

Defining Open Standards Programming for AI and HPC

Join us for an engaging Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at ISC, hosted by Rod Burns, Chair of the UXL Foundation Steering Committee, alongside Hartwig Anzt of the Ginkgo linear algebra project and Biagio Cosenza from the University of Salerno, this session will explore the pressing challenges of developing software across diverse architectures.

Join us to drive an open standard accelerator software ecosystem

Members

Shape the future of accelerated computing

Influence the future of the UXL Foundation, participate in Working Group and Special Interest Group decision-making, and co-develop the specification.

Contributors

Contribute to open source projects

Submit changes and enhancements to open source projects and/or the specification, provide insight and feedback, and participate in quarterly events.

End Users

Use open source projects

Start using open source projects for faster application performance, more productivity, and greater innovation when working across diverse architectures.

Steering Members

See the organizations, members, and contributors collaborating on the specification and open source projects governed by UXL.

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Hear from our Steering Members

“The foundation members aspire to build the largest open ecosystem for accelerated computing. The initial contributions to the foundation will bring an existing open standards based platform with open governance. Our ultimate aim is to foster a multi-architecture and multi-vendor programming platform for all accelerators.”

Rod Burns

UXL Foundation Steering Committee Chair, 2023-2025

“The future of human centric, sustainable digital transformation needs a holistic approach to technology development and open collaboration with the international community. The Unified Acceleration Foundation’s innovative strategy of building a unified development ecosystem will play a vital role in advancing the creation of cross-platform software and accelerators.”

Hirai Kouichi

Head of Software Development Division under the Advanced Technology Development Unit, Fujitsu

“The growing diversity of accelerators presents a tremendous opportunity for the industry but can also introduce challenges. Consistent programming models help developers write code that can run efficiently on any accelerator, fostering innovation and choice.”

George Elissaios

Sr. Director, HPC and ML infrastructure at Google Cloud

“The technology that is improving our day-to-day experiences of driving, entertainment, healthcare and more, is increasingly data-intensive and complex. A new open and collaborative approach to computing is required to provide the necessary acceleration in an efficient and performant manner, whether in the cloud or at the edge. As a founding member of the Unified Acceleration Foundation, Imagination Technologies will help unite the technology ecosystem around the oneAPI spec and encourage its widespread adoption for software acceleration.”

Shreyas Derashri

Vice President of Compute Product Management at Imagination Technologies

“As a new independent entity, the Unified Acceleration Foundation will help build an open source programming model across a wide range of architectures and vendors. This helps to address a critical need in the industry for flexible and open source alternatives that will enable a broad range of unique needs."

Vinesh Sukumar

Senior Director of Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

“Samsung is pleased to be part of the Unified Acceleration Foundation, which will help expand the basis and adoption for memory coupled computing technologies, such as PIM and PNM. We expect the open collaboration will also bolster programming models and software stacks to effectively accelerate AI/HPC applications in future datacenter and supercomputing systems.”

Seungwon Lee

Master and lead of computing software team at Samsung Advanced Institute of technology(SAIT)

“Linux and GNU transformed the CPU software stack through open source and standards, encompassing everything from embedded to cloud computing. As a founding member of the Unified Acceleration Foundation, I believe that open source and standards are essential for creating a cross platform software stack for GPU’s and other accelerators that will serve as the foundation for the next generation of computationally and data-intensive applications.”

Robert Cohn

Intel Corporation, oneAPI Specification Editor