Intel Parallel Studio XE was a software development product developed by

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that facilitated native code development on

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and

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and Fortran for parallel computing. Parallel programming enables software programs to take advantage of

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s from Intel and other processor vendors. Intel Parallel Studio XE was rebranded and repackaged by Intel whe
oneAPI toolkits
were released in December 2020. Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit + Intel oneAPI HPC toolkit contain all the tools in Parallel Studio XE and more. One significant addition is a Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) compiler designed to allow developers to reuse code across hardware targets (CPUs and accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs).

Components

Parallel Studio is composed of several component parts, each of which is a collection of capabilities. *

Intel C++ Compiler Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler and Intel C++ Compiler Classic are Intel’s C, C++, SYCL, and Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) compilers for Intel processor-based systems, available for Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. Overview Intel ...

with

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with OpenMP * IDE plug-in integration with

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, Eclipse and

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* Debugging via Visual Studio Debugger extensions,

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extensions *

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(IPP) *

Math Kernel Library Intel oneAPI Math Kernel Library (Intel oneMKL; formerly Intel Math Kernel Library or Intel MKL) is a library of optimized math routines for science, engineering, and financial applications. Core math functions include BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, ...

(MKL) *

Threading Building Blocks oneAPI Threading Building Blocks (oneTBB; formerly Threading Building Blocks or TBB), is a C++ template library developed by Intel for parallel programming on multi-core processors. Using TBB, a computation is broken down into tasks that can ru ...

(TBB) *

Data Analytics Acceleration Library oneAPI Data Analytics Library (oneDAL; formerly Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library or Intel DAAL), is a library of optimized algorithmic building blocks for data analysis stages most commonly associated with solving Big Data problems. T ...

(DAAL) *

Intel Advisor Intel Advisor (also known as "Advisor XE", "Vectorization Advisor" or "Threading Advisor") is a design assistance and analysis tool for SIMD vectorization, threading, memory use, and GPU offload optimization. The tool supports C, C++, Data Parall ...

- specialized performance profiler to optimize vectorization and a thread prototyping system for adding / improving threading. * Intel VTune Profiler (formerly VTune Amplifier) is a performance profiler that analyzes

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, threading, I/O, FPGA, GPU, system, throttling and microarchitecture bottlenecks. *

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improves reliability by identifying memory errors and threading errors. * Intel MPI Library – a multi-fabric message passing library that implements the Message Passing Interface specification across Intel platforms * Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector - a graphical tool for understanding MPI application behavior, finding bottlenecks and errors in parallel cluster applications based on Intel architecture * Intel Cluster Checker – Prepackaged checks to diagnose cluster health, functionality and performance. They are accessible via API to embed capabilities into applications. * Intel Distribution for Python – a

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distribution using Intel Performance libraries to boost performance of NumPy,

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and other packages.

History

Intel announced Parallel Studio during their

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in August 2008 along with a web site to sign up for their open beta program. On 26 May 2009, Intel announced that it had released the product to market. Intel and Microsoft worked together to make their products compatible by adopting a common runtime called the Microsoft Concurrency Runtime, which is part of

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. Intel released a new version, Intel Parallel Studio 2011, on September 2, 2010. Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2013, on September 5, 2012. Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015, on August 26, 2014. Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016, on August 25, 2015. Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 on September 6, 2016. Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 on September 12, 2017 Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2019 on September 12, 2018 Intel released Intel Parallel Studio XE 2020 on December 16, 2019 Intel release
oneAPI toolkits
replacing Intel Parallel Studio XE on December 8, 2020

References

External links

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Threading Building Blocks Open Source Project Home

Cilk Plus Open Source Project Home

Parallel Studio Video Tour

Intel Releases Parallel Studio (Dr. Dobbs)

Intel addresses development life cycle with Parallel Studio (SDTimes)
{{Intel software Application programming interfaces C++ programming language family Generic programming Parallel Studio Profilers Threads (computing)

Components

History

See also

References

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