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Unified Acceleration Foundation

The UXL Foundation was established in September 2023 to guide the development of SYCL-based, cross-architecture software and promote an open, vendor-neutral acceleration ecosystem. Through collaborative development and open standards, the foundation aims to enable developers to build high-performance applications that run across a diverse range of hardware platforms.

To accomplish this mission, we bring ecosystem participants together to:

  • Build a multiarchitecture, multivendor software ecosystem for accelerators.
  • Unify the heterogeneous compute ecosystem around open standards.
  • Build on and expand open source projects for accelerated computing.

2026 Objectives

We’ve made significant progress toward our goals over the last several years, growing our member base, adopting best practices for open source development, and extending projects to support new target processors and features.

Collaboration on oneAPI, our cross-architecture open specification for accelerated computing, and open source projects has also increased across the whole community through our active Working Groups and Special Interest Groups.

In 2026, we’re focused on a number of key initiatives to keep us moving forward:

  • Increasing practical guidance that helps developers build portable software more easily.
  • Launching a one Memory Centric Compute (oneMCC) Special Interest Group.
  • Strengthening governance and community transparency.
  • Growing the ecosystem through community awareness and educational programs.

Community participation is vital to achieving our shared goals. We invite you to learn more about the UXL Foundation and to join us in building the future of portable acceleration.

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Our progress in numbers

7 Active Working Group Projects

oneAPI specification, oneCCL, oneDAL, oneDNN, oneDPL, oneMath, oneTBB

5 Special Interest Groups

AI and Scientific Computing, Hardware, Language, Math, Memory Centric Computing

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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

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