Axel Huebl

@trudeaun thank you very much for the detailed response as well! It's great to read XL is incorporating clang front-end technology. Currently, boost still works with C++98 and there are...

spack: yes, it recognizes the compiler if present, but we could also add the install :) (link above) Patches for more recent versions would be fantastic, thank you for your...

Perfect, the compiler predefs we should be able to re-build based on set defines.

Fantastic idea! Lets ping @psychocoderHPC @BenjaminW3 @j-stephan @bernhardmgruber @sbastrakov @bussmann. Background: The Parallel Reserach Kernels (ParRes Kernels) are a set of simple programs that can be used to explore the...

puh, that can generally be useful but as you state it correctly it brings a good amount of requirements and additional checks (locks) for the code that harm performance. the...

> @ax3l Could you please have a look to our ideas. Sounds good! I am not sure if you already need spack since the goal is to keep Alpaka very-low...

I know we go for docker containers, just want to mention that in Spack a new feature for GitLab called `spack ci` ("Spack Pipelines") landed that might be useful at...

Excellent proposal to modernize this! > @ax3l Are you still working on #478? No, please feel free to roll your own installers while you are on it :) Scavenge (or...

> Not exactly. CUDA and HIP are not included as targets but use their outdated CMake modules instead. We are not calling target_link_libraries(SomeTarget cuda::cuda) ... Didn't know that works, since...

Good news everyone, CMake 3.17+ will honour the `SYSTEM` property for include dependencies when compiling with NVCC: https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/merge_requests/4317 Significantly less (boost) warnings when compiling apps for CUDA!