Best Of All computation: What is OneAPI? What Intel is achieving with it?
Today in the digital era software and product development has move from traditional architecture to Artificial Intelligence (AI) inspired architecture. The new AI base software developments are making many promising to the users from adding intelligence of software to automating many boring tasks. In all these dreaming world, there are many questions and obstacles to fulfill the promises of AI-based software. Challenges like, making AI model optimized for computational constraint devices, running model on various software and hardware architecture or making model suitable to different use-cases are road blocks of AI growth and AI-enabled software.
Traditionally, many software packages, frameworks and tools are being develop to resolved many of these challenges. But often this requires developers to jump through various software eco-systems and frameworks that limit the progress and making AI development and deployment slow.
Keeping the various challenges of AI-based software development Intel has come up with an unified and wide range of tools and frameworks to address inherit problems of traditional eco-system. Intel OneAPI toolkit is collection of various toolkits specific for solving a specific problem while keeping the similar syntax, semantic and development environment.
“Intel OneAPI is a toolkit to Build, analyze, and optimize high-performance, cross-architecture applications on CPUs and XPUs with best-in-class compilers, performance libraries, frameworks, and analysis and debug tools.”
Intel OneAPI toolkit is a collection of AI related toolkit that aim to solve a specific issues, for example below table list out the available toolkit under Intel OneAPI toolkit eco-system.
What is OneAPI?
oneAPI is a cross-industry, open, standards-based unified programming model that delivers a common developer experience across accelerator architectures — for faster application performance, more productivity, and greater innovation. The oneAPI industry initiative encourages collaboration on the oneAPI specification and compatible oneAPI implementations across the ecosystem. [Source]
This blog post give a brief introduction of Intel OneAPI toolkit based upon the official page. In continuous of this post, each of these OneAPI toolkit will be explain in detail as a get started tutorial.
