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Intel® Parallel Studio XE Release Notes and New Features

This page provides the current Release Notes for Intel® Parallel Studio XE. The notes are categorized by yr, from newest to oldest, with individual releases listed within each yr.

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2020

English Release Notes

Overview:

• Added support for Intel® Advaned Matrix Extensions in Intel® Compilers and Intel® Math Kernel Library.
• Intel® VTune™ Profiler Memory-Mapped I/O (MMIO) at present supports InfiniBand* devices.
• Added back up for Intel® Ethernet 800 series in Intel® MPI Library.

English Release Notes

Overview:

• Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2020 Composer Edition for Fortran and C++ Linux* contains an update to the Intel® C++ Compiler adjacent generation lawmaking generator. This is invoked using the -qnextgen selection to the ICC and ICPC compilers. This update to the Intel® C++ Compiler adjacent generation code generator includes our latest updates and features for our C++ next generation compiler invoked with the -qnextgen option. In that location are no new features, bug fixes, or security enhancements for the Intel® Fortran Compiler or the Intel® C++ Compiler without the -qnextgen option.

English language Release Notes

Overview:

• Added multiple new APIs in Intel® Math Kernel Library.
• Implemented Memory-Level Roofline feature in Intel® Counselor.
• Implemented Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS) file system back up in Intel® MPI Library.

English language Release Notes

Overview:

• Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2020 Update 1 includes functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.
• Later the initial release of Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2020 Update 1 build 085 we found a bug in our installer. Information technology affects but the installer. We republished Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2020 Update i for Windows* with a new package, build 086. Intel® Software Director (ISM) for Windows will find this and alarm you to a new update. Updating is optional, as other than the installer builds 085 and 086 are identical. You may wish to install the newer build 086 so that ISM will not alarm you about this update again in the time to come. We repent for the inconvenience and redundant notices in ISM.
• Intel® IMPI:
  • Implemented dynamic processes back up in OFI/mlx provider
  • Added PMI2 support
• Intel® Math Kernel Library: ScaLAPACK introduced distributed nonsymmetric eigensolver functionality
• Intel® Information Analytics Acceleration Library: New algorithms implemented: Elastic Net and Probabilistic nomenclature for Decision Forest
• Intel® Advisor:
  • Integrated Roofline feature preview added First Bottleneck visualization and unmarried kernel view and guidance
  • Counselor Python* API back up moved to Python 3
• Intel® VTune™ Profiler: Microarchitecture Exploration analysis is now supported on Intel processors formerly code-named Icelake.

English Release Notes Japanese Release Notes

Overview:

• Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2020 includes functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.
• Accelerate Artificial Intelligence inferencing with development support for the latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors with Intel® Deep Learning Boost.
• Expanded cloud back up - Execute HPC jobs in the cloud with Intel® MPI Lbirary back up of AWS's Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for low latency and high bandwidth and support for Amazon Linux 2 Os.
• Expanded standards support for Fortran 2018 and total C++17.

2019

English Release Notes

Overview:

• Update 7 is for Composer Edition Simply: No Professional Edition or Cluster Edition releases for this update
• Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2019 Update 7 Composer Edition is a compiler bug fix update only. Users may update to the latest version simply it is not required. The bug fix was minor.

English Release Notes

Overview:

• Update 6 is for Composer Edition Simply: No Professional Edition or Cluster Edition releases for this update
• Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2019 Update vi Composer Edition is a compiler bug fix update only. Users may update to the latest version but information technology is not required. The issues fix was minor.

English language Release Notes

Overview:

• Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2019 Update 5 includes functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.
• Simplified configuration of a Windows*-to-Linux* remote collection in Intel® VTune™ Amplifier.
• Added support for AWS* EFA (Rubberband Textile Adapter) in Intel® MPI Library.
• Added transparent Singularity* (3.0+) container back up without need for external mpirun or process manager in Intel® MPI Library.

English Release Notes Japanese Release Notes

Overview:

• Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2019 Update 4 includes certain functional and security updates. Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2019 Update 5 is targeted to exist released in September 2019 and will include additional functional and security updates. Customers should update to the latest version as it becomes available.
• The Intel® Compilers released ii builds for Update 4. The initial Update 4 build and release, "Update 4 initial (removed)", was an early on release for Microsoft Visual Studio* 2019 integration and back up. All other users should use the default Update 4 release compilers. Run into the compiler Release Notes for more than details on these two compiler releases for more information.
• The Intel® Software License Director has been updated to version two.nine for this release. Yous must upgrade to this version before installing Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2019 Update iv with a floating license.
• Added back up for Microsoft* Visual Studio 2019.
• Intel® Math Kernel Library functions LAPACK, ScaLAPACK and FFT deliver functioning improvements through instruction set and threading optimizations
• GNU* Debugger updated to version eight.2.ane with additional functionality for role entry points, breakpoints and more.
• Intel® VTune™ Amplifier adds new hardware result support and enhanced retentiveness analysis to design and optimize support for Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory and 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (code name Pour Lake)
• Intel® Advisor improved user interface for roofline summary pane, added roofline guidance as a preview feature and added analysis back up for AVX-512 vector neural network instructions
• Intel® Inspector memory checker assay improved to reduce false positive diagnostics
• Intel® MPI Library increases flexibility by adding application runtime auto tuning and additional improvements for communication algorithms
• Intel® MPI Benchmarks add features to become more than stable criterion results and adds additional criterion for reductions
• Intel® Cluster Checker adds support for Intel® Select Solutions for Simulation and Modeling and checking for Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory configurations

English language Release Notes

Overview:

• Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2019 Update 3 includes functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.
• Added strict CNR mode in Intel® Math Kernel Library for bitwise reproducibility on certain functions and certain pedagogy sets.
• Extended Roofline Compare feature in Intel® Advisor with automatic matching of dots betwixt results.
• Added ability to generate HTML-based rank-to-rank communication diagram by message book in Application Performance Snapshot.

English language Release Notes

Overview:

• Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2019 Update 2 includes functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.

English language Release Notes

Overview:

• Removed 32-fleck content for macOS*.
• Added new method for installing and upgrading Intel® Distribution for Python*.
• Japanese localization support.

English language Release Notes

Overview:

• Intel® Distribution for Python* integrated into Intel® Parallel Studio XE.
• Updated back up for new language features in C++17 and Fortran 2018.
• Intel® MPI Library updated to CH4.

2018

English Release Notes

Overview:

• Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2018 Update 5 includes functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.

English Release Notes

Overview:

• Fixed security vulnerabilities in the installer.
• Added support for parallel and vector execution policies in more functions in Parallel STL in the Intel® C/C++ compiler.
• Improved performance in various functions in Intel® Math Kernel Library.

English Release Notes Japanese Release Notes

Overview:

• Enhanced Roofline Analysis for Intel® Advisor.
• Improved performance for modest trouble sizes in certain routines in Intel® Math Kernel Library.
• Added support for parallel and/or vector execution policies in more algorithms in Intel® C/C++ Compiler.

English Release Notes

Overview:

• Added back up for Xcode* ix.2.
• Faster shared memory communication for collective operations in Intel® MPI Library.
• Intel® Advisor allows visualization of multiple Roofline analysis results on the aforementioned nautical chart to compare operation before and afterward optimization.
• Call Intel® Threading Edifice Blocks from your Python* code with a module for multi-processing numeric computations (in technical preview).
• Intel® VTune™ Amplifier's Application Performance Snapshot adds new data selection options and break/resume API back up.

English Release Notes Japanese Release Notes

Overview:

• Faster application performance with expanded Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) threading layer support in Intel® Math Kernel Library SparseSyrk and SpMM routines
• Easier integration of Intel® Math Kernel Library using pkg-config file
• Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives now supports 3D information filtering and copying for large images with new platform-enlightened APIs
• Improved integration with Microsoft Visual Studio* 2017
• Application Functioning Snapshot now provides a quick operation overview without the need to install a custom commuter on Linux
• Hierarchical Roofline feature of Intel® Counselor simplifies analysis of complex code. Use progressive disclosure to drill in on areas of interest.
• Intel® MPI Library 2019 Technical Preview for Linux is at present available. Try new capabilities for better multi-threaded communications in hybrid programs and reduced latency.
• Faster analysis of advice imbalances with Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector

Release Notes

Overview:

• Speed application performance with Intel® Avant-garde Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) for Intel® Xeon® Scalable and Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors.
• Accelerate MPI applications with Intel® Omni-Path Compages.
• Accelerate applications with high-functioning Python*.
• Find high impact, but under optimized loops using Intel® Counselor's roofline assay.
• Quickly spot high payoff opportunities for faster code using Intel® VTune™ Amplifier's operation snapshot for MPI, CPU, FPU, and retentiveness employ. Adds MPICH and Cray back up.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest standards and IDEs.
  • Full C++fourteen and initial C++ 2017 draft.
  • Full Fortran 2008 and initial Fortran 2015 draft.
  • Python 2.vii and 3.half-dozen, initial OpenMP 5.0 draft.
  • Microsoft Visual Studio* 2017 integration.

2017

Linux*/Windows* Release Notes

Overview

• Intel® C/C++ Compiler and Intel® Fortran Compiler bug fixes:
  • Fixed compatibility effect with Red Lid Enterprise Linux* seven.4.
  • Fixed offload result for Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor (formerly codenamed Knights Corner) on Linux*.
  • Stock-still issue with -xhost not working on non-Intel hardware.

Linux*/Windows* Release Notes macOS* Release Notes

Overview:

• Added support for Microsoft Visual Studio* 2017.
• Added support for installing some libraries from yum, apt, or conda (meet this article for more information).
• Added support for cluster installation on Microsoft Windows Server 2016*.
• Added support for Xcode* eight.3 (macOS* only).
• New licenses for distribution:
  • Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL) and Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) are distributed under Intel Simplified Software License.
  • Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) for Linux* and macOS* and Intel® Data Analytics Acceleration Library (Intel® DAAL) for Linux* and macOS* are distributed under Apache License, Version ii.0.

Linux* Release Notes

Overview:

Note: This update release is for Linux* only. Release notes are the same every bit for 2017 Update 2.

• Intel®C/C++ and Fortran Compilers add optimizations for the latest Intel® Xeon® processors.

2016

Linux*/Windows* Release Notes OS X* Release Notes

Overview

• This update tin can exist installed even if your back up service has expired using your existing Serial Number. However, we encourage yous to upgrade to the latest 2018 version of the tools available.
• Intel® C++ Compiler and Intel® Fortran Compiler provide new options to mitigate branch target injection.
• Intel® Parallel Studio XE Professional and Cluster Edition users - download and install the Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2016 Update 5 Composer Edition to get the Intel® Compilers xvi.0 Update 8.

Linux*/Windows* Release Notes macOS* Release Notes

Overview:

• All components updated to electric current versions.
• All components have added support for Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor (codename: Knights Landing).
  • Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE requires an NDA improver: contact technical back up to asking access.
• Added support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015* Update 2.
• Japanese localization has been updated.

Linux*/Windows* Release Notes macOS* Release Notes

Overview:

• All components updated to current versions.
• Added support for Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor (codename: Knights Landing) for several components.
• Added support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015* Update 1 as well as latest distros of Fedora*, Ubuntu*, and Microsoft Windows* 10.

Linux*/Windows* Release Notes macOS* Release Notes

Overview:

• All components updated to electric current versions.
• Added support for:
  • Windows* 10
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2015*
  • Some components have added support for Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) instructions for Intel® Many Integrated Cadre Architecture (Intel® MIC Compages) used past Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor and coprocessor (lawmaking name Knights Landing)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Shell* for Intel® Visual Fortran for Windows* is updated to 2013.
• Xcode* half-dozen.3.2 at present requires explicit acceptance of IDE integration before completing install of IDE integration.
• Deprecation of the following features:
  • IA-32 host installation support
  • Visual Studio* 2010 support
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 5.0 back up
• Removal of support for the post-obit Operating Systems:
  • Fedora* 20
  • Debian* half-dozen
• New component: Intel® Data Analytics Acceleration Library added to all editions.
• New component: Intel® Cluster Checker added to Cluster Edition for Linux* only.

2015

Windows* Release Notes

Overview:

This update is only for Windows* OS.

• All components updated to current versions.
• Documentation updates.

Linux*/Windows* Release Notes macOS* Release Notes for C/C++ macOS* Release Notes for Fortran

Overview:

• All components updated to current versions.
• Changes to the directory construction including:
  • Removal of the divide 'icsxe' directory.
  • New links pointing to the latest installed version of the Intelreg; MPI Library and the Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector.
• Intel® MPI Library and Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector have deprecated 32-fleck support - click here for more than info.
• The Intel® Debugger is no longer included in Intel® Parallel Studio XE Cluster Edition. An Intel-extended version of the GNU* Project Debugger (GDB*) is provided.

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