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kokkos/kokkos-kernels

Kokkos C++ Performance Portability Programming Ecosystem: Math Kernels - Provides BLAS, Sparse BLAS and Graph Kernels

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In the last 30 days, kokkos/kokkos-kernels merged 16 of 32 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

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Oct 1, 2026
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  • rotg returns the wrong sign for r when a is zero and b is negative
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#3328 ·

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  • Improvements to the BDF ODE Solver
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#3292 · 3 comments ·

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  • [Windows][MPI] Build with shared libs failed with LNK1189
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#3073 · 1 comment ·

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  • TeamApplyQ
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#3050 ·

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  • Benchmark updates
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2946 ·

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  • Sycl test failures with intel oneapi 2024.2.1
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2739 · 1 comment ·

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  • Not respecting `KokkosKernels_ENABLE_COMPONENT_{whatever}=OFF`
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2704 · 1 comment ·

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  • KokkosBatched::SerialSVD::invoke(..) hang in Kokkos v4.6
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2650 · 5 comments ·

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  • Couldn't use `KokkosBatched::SerialDotInternal::invoke` for a dot product in `BatchedSerialGemm`
    May be free again @lucbv claimed this 527 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2611 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Kokkos::SerialSVD hang
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2557 · 2 comments ·

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  • `BATCHED` component test file `Test_Batched_SerialTrsv.hpp` can't include `BLAS` header
    May be free again @cwpearson claimed this 624 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2486 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • CMake Config forces launch_compiler
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2424 · 4 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Clang+Cuda unit test failures
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2351 · 2 comments ·

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  • kokkos kernels: broken unit test w/ cuda 12.4 on h100 gpus with UVM enabled
    May be free again @lucbv claimed this 771 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2316 · 19 comments · 2 assignees ·

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  • Add Sparse Direct Solver Support via TPLs
    May be free again @ddement claimed this 840 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2251 · 5 comments ·

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  • Is there a need to shorted the names of generated files for Windows?
    Open
    question

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2208 ·

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  • Better handling of input/output sortedness for spgemm
    May be free again @brian-kelley claimed this 260 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement InDevelop

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2194 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Magma and cuBLAS incompatible in unit tests
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2177 · 3 comments ·

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  • nested namespace holding kk mkl implementation
    May be free again @lucbv claimed this 938 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    Cleanup

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2143 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • SYCL/PVC: native spmv, spmv_mv fail for complex_double
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2127 · 1 comment ·

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  • Necessity of both `KokkosKernels_ENABLED_COMPONENTS` and `KokkosKernels_ENABLE_...`?
    May be free again @cwpearson claimed this 1029 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    Documentation

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2071 · 6 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • GEMV unit test failures on Ponte Vecchio with oneMKL
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2063 · 1 comment ·

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  • Unit test coverage gaps
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#2016 ·

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  • Add functor-level stream support to sptrsv
    May be free again @e10harvey claimed this 1094 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1994 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Testing Share space
    May be free again @lucbv claimed this 1115 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1971 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·

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  • Make stream interfaces non-blocking
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1931 ·

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  • build errors in `sptrsv` and `spadd` perf_tests on CUDA 12.2.53
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1890 · 2 comments ·

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  • Add KokkosGraph stream support
    May be free again @brian-kelley claimed this 1203 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1879 · 1 assignee ·

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  • multi-color gauss-seidel with streams
    May be free again @e10harvey claimed this 1213 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1860 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Only ETI specified ETI types
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1847 · 2 comments ·

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  • Check for invalid ETI types before linking
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1845 · 3 comments ·

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  • CHECK_C_COMPILES
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1746 · 1 comment ·

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  • Incomplete capture of Benchmark context on multi-GPU systems
    May be free again @cwpearson claimed this 1301 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    bug

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1741 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Add print wrappers to TestUtils
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1705 ·

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  • perf tests: each test re-implements standard boiler plate hindering maintenance
    May be free again @lucbv claimed this 1339 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1674 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·

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  • SpGEMM hangs for tiny matrix on SYCL/OneAPI backend
    May be free again @brian-kelley claimed this 1343 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    bug

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1668 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Stream interfaces checking if execution_space is valid
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1648 · 3 comments ·

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  • LAPACK Wrappers Request
    May be free again @eeprude claimed this 1359 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    feature request

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1642 · 7 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • cuda/11.2.2 link errors when both LayoutLeft and LayoutRight are enabled
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1601 · 1 comment ·

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  • Add -Wsigned-conversion to CI checks
    May be free again @cwpearson claimed this 1213 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1585 · 2 assignees ·

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  • Add cuSPARSE TPL support for new cusparseSpSV APIs for SPTRSV with CUDA >= 11.3
    May be free again @vqd8a claimed this 1441 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1575 · 1 assignee ·

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  • OpenMP backend no longer requires `volatile` for `Kokkos::single` in a `TeamPolicy`
    May be free again @cwpearson claimed this 1475 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    bug CompatibilityUpdate

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1545 · 1 assignee ·

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  • openmp.sparse_spgemm_{jacobi_}double_int_int_TestExecSpace hangs W/ GCC10+ARMPL21 & c++17 w/ blas TPL enabled
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1542 · 2 comments ·

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  • Graph coarsening test CUDA build error
    Open
    bug fixed-in-develop

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1516 ·

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  • Add unit test for batch handling TeamGEMV
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1443 ·

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  • Combine Batched BlockCrs Tests
    Open
    Cleanup

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1391 · 1 comment ·

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  • Have serial algorithm in SpTRSV
    Open
    feature request

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1334 ·

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  • {serial,openmp}.sparse_spmv_mv failures with gcc/10 and gcc/10+armpl/21
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1331 · 5 comments ·

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  • Incorrect integral type for CrsMatrix constructor?
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1316 · 7 comments ·

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  • Poor parallelism when building tests
    May be free again @cwpearson claimed this 1702 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    kokkos/kokkos-kernels#1305 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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