A unified, agnostic software environment spanning HPC and AI won't be achieved

It is entirely human and in some senses desirable to eliminate as much of the complexity out of the IT stack as makes sense. And it is also entirely human to be accepting of the need for choice and to acknowledge the necessary frustration of complexity. There is a tension between these two, as many Reg readers pointed out in …

[Tom 7]

I think it will happen

it will just be in Chinese to start with.

[Steve Lionel]

oneAPI

Isn't this what Intel oneAPI is supposed to (eventually) be?