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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

From Model to Metal: An Open Source Stack for Accelerating Intelligence

Andrew Wafaa

Are hardware silos bottlenecking your AI workflows? Discover how the open-source UXL stack lets you write once and deploy seamlessly across any CPU, GPU, or NPU architecture.

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#1 about 2 min

Arm architecture and growing compute requirements for machine learning

The widespread deployment of arm architecture highlights the huge compute and energy demands of modern artificial intelligence.

#2 about 2 min

Addressing software fragmentation in long-tail machine learning workloads

Fragmented software stacks and vendor-specific libraries cause duplicated effort and hardcoded shortcuts.

#3 about 2 min

The need for unified open tooling across hardware vendors

Standardizing application programming interfaces removes proprietary silos and bridges architectural differences across diverse processors.

#4 about 3 min

Introduction to the unified acceleration library and oneAPI specification

The UXL Foundation provides a vendor-neutral specification to enable code portability and near-native performance through dynamic dispatch.

#5 about 2 min

Optimizing neural networks and integrating frameworks with oneDNN

Using oneDNN maximizes operation throughput and automatically maps cross-framework requests to optimized routines.

#6 about 1 min

Consolidating mathematical function implementations using the oneMath library

A single flexible API handles complex mathematical and statistical functions without requiring multiple backend implementations.

#7 about 1 min

Handling task parallelism and scheduling consistently with oneTBB

The oneTBB library minimizes thread scheduling overhead and allows code to execute natively across differing hardware configurations.

#8 about 2 min

Scaling multi-node communications and building machine learning pipelines

Leveraging oneCCL ensures efficient cross-node scaling while oneDAL handles pre-processing and analytics pipelines.

#9 about 2 min

Integrating the UXL stack from hardware execution to frameworks

A unified layer architecture automatically maps heavy mathematical queries and data preparation requirements directly to inference workloads.

#10 about 3 min

Democratizing intelligent computing via an open hardware-agnostic stack

Creating a write-once, run-anywhere ecosystem ensures that software optimizations stay in lockstep with upcoming processor advancements.

#11 about 2 min

Contributing code and micro kernels to the UXL Foundation

Developers can help minimize duplicate engineering efforts by sharing micro kernels and workload performance data.

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Michael Kagan Michael Kagan +1 · World Congress 2026 Europe

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Stephan Gillich Stephan Gillich +3 · World Congress 2024

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Daniel Graff +1 · World Congress 2021

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