Kokkos 4.6 Release Briefing – April 2025

The Kokkos Team is inviting you to the Kokkos 4.6 release briefing. The briefing will be held online on the 04/10/25, 11AM, ET and cover updates on the Kokkos community and changes in Kokkos from 4.5.
The full change log can be found at https://github.com/kokkos/kokkos/blob/release-candidate-4.6.00/CHANGELOG.md#4600

Community Updates:

• Kokkos User Group 7-8th of May in Chicago https://kokkos.org/blog/kug-2025/

Kokkos Core Changes:

• Experimental support for using multiple GPUs from one process
• New features in Kokkos::Graph
• Makefiles officially marked for deprecation

Kokkos Kernels Changes:

• Namespace changes and deprecation in sparse algorithms
• Documentation distributed with source
• Re-implementation and split of batched dense solvers