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Field report for the Kokkos User Group Meeting 2026

March 31, 2026 • 6 min read • Blog

Field report for the Kokkos User Group Meeting 2026

A field report from the Kokkos User Group Meeting 2026, part of the HPSF Conference in Chicago, IL.
Kokkos-FFT v1.0 release

March 5, 2026 • 2 min read • Blog

Kokkos-FFT v1.0 release

Kokkos-FFT v1.0 has been released and reached production level, recapping its key features.
Using Kokkos with ROCm Profiling Tools

January 28, 2026 • 8 min read • 2026

Using Kokkos with ROCm Profiling Tools

How to use ROCm's rocprof-sys and rocprof-compute profiling tools with Kokkos applications.
Kokkos User Group Meeting 2026 Program Announced

January 26, 2026 • 5 min read • User Group Meeting

Kokkos User Group Meeting 2026 Program Announced

The main program schedule for the Kokkos User Group (KUG) 2026 is now available.
Kokkos User Group Meeting 2026 in Europe @ HPSF Community Summit

January 1, 2026 • 4 min read • User Group Meeting

Kokkos User Group Meeting 2026 in Europe @ HPSF Community Summit

The next Kokkos User Group meeting in Europe takes place in Braunschweig, Germany, February 25th to 27th, as part of the HPSF Community Summit.
CExA Kokkos Hackathon

December 11, 2025 • 2 min read • 2025

CExA Kokkos Hackathon

CExA organizes a Kokkos hackathon on January 12-16, 2026, at Maison de la Simulation, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Kokkos User Group Meeting 2026 @HPSFcon

December 1, 2025 • 3 min read • User Group Meeting

Kokkos User Group Meeting 2026 @HPSFcon

The next Kokkos User Group meeting will be held in Chicago, IL, March 19th and 20th, as part of the 2nd annual HPSFcon conference.
Aligning Our Numbers: Kokkos Adopts Semantic Versioning with v5.0

July 8, 2025 • 3 min read • 2025

Aligning Our Numbers: Kokkos Adopts Semantic Versioning with v5.0

Starting with the Kokkos 5.x series, Kokkos officially aligns with Semantic Versioning (SemVer) 2.0.0.
Kokkos FFT: A Native FFT Interface for the Kokkos Ecosystem

June 25, 2025 • 7 min read • Blog

Kokkos FFT: A Native FFT Interface for the Kokkos Ecosystem

Kokkos-FFT provides a native, numpy.fft-like FFT interface for the Kokkos ecosystem.
Field report for the Kokkos User Group Meeting 2025

May 9, 2025 • 3 min read • Blog

Field report for the Kokkos User Group Meeting 2025

A field report from the Kokkos User Group Meeting 2025 in Chicago, IL, part of the inaugural HPSFcon conference.
Kokkos::View meets std::mdspan

April 11, 2025 • 3 min read • 2025

Kokkos::View meets std::mdspan

Kokkos::View has been refactored to use std::mdspan at its core, and we need your help testing it.
Kokkos Core Achieves OpenSSF Best Practices "Passing" Badge!

April 10, 2025 • 2 min read • 2025

Kokkos Core Achieves OpenSSF Best Practices “Passing” Badge!

The Kokkos Core project has achieved the "passing" badge from the OpenSSF Best Practices Program.
Kokkos User Group Meeting 2025 Program Announced

March 11, 2025 • 6 min read • User Group Meeting

Kokkos User Group Meeting 2025 Program Announced

The main program schedule for the Kokkos User Group (KUG) 2025 is now available.
Kokkos User Group Meeting 2025 @HPSFcon

January 24, 2025 • 3 min read • User Group Meeting

Kokkos User Group Meeting 2025 @HPSFcon

The next Kokkos User Group meeting will be held in Chicago, IL, May 7th and 8th, 2025, as part of the inaugural HPSFcon conference.
Kokkos 4.5 Release Introduces New Auto-tuning Features

December 11, 2024 • 3 min read • Blog

Kokkos 4.5 Release Introduces New Auto-tuning Features

Kokkos 4.5 introduces auto-tuning features that let programmers automatically tune execution space parameters for a given application and architecture.
Kokkos Joins High Performance Software Foundation

May 20, 2024 • 3 min read • Blog

Kokkos Joins High Performance Software Foundation

Kokkos is among the six initial technical projects of the newly created High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF).
European Trilinos & Kokkos User Group Meeting 2024

May 3, 2024 • 1 min read • Blog

European Trilinos & Kokkos User Group Meeting 2024

The European Trilinos & Kokkos User Group (EuroTUG) 2024 meeting takes place in Hamburg, Germany, June 24-26, 2024.
17 Apr. 2024: First Kokkos tea-time

April 12, 2024 • 5 min read • Blog

17 Apr. 2024: First Kokkos tea-time

Monthly time to discuss anything related to Kokkos, its ecosystem, or GPU-programming at large.
Kokkos User Group Meeting 2023 Trip Report

January 17, 2024 • 7 min read • Blog

Kokkos User Group Meeting 2023 Trip Report

A trip report from the second Kokkos User Group meeting, held in Albuquerque, NM, December 12th-15th, 2023.
Kokkos-powered Climate Simulation Code Wins the Inaugural Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling

November 18, 2023 • 2 min read • Blog

Kokkos-powered Climate Simulation Code Wins the Inaugural Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling

SCREAM, a Kokkos-based cloud-resolving atmosphere model, wins the inaugural ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling.
Kokkos User Group Meeting 2023 in Albuquerque NM

October 24, 2023 • 1 min read • Blog

Kokkos User Group Meeting 2023 in Albuquerque NM

The Kokkos Team holds a User Group Meeting in Albuquerque, NM, to gather the community and provide updates on the Kokkos Ecosystem.
HPX now available as an experimental backend

April 9, 2019 • 1 min read • Blog

HPX now available as an experimental backend

Kokkos now has an HPX backend, the first backend capable of providing Kokkos' asynchronous semantics on CPUs.
1st Kokkos User Group Meeting in Albuquerque NM

January 18, 2019 • 1 min read • Blog

1st Kokkos User Group Meeting in Albuquerque NM

Announcing the first Kokkos User Group Meeting, held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 23rd-25th.