Intel Parallel Studio XE for Windows

What's new in Intel Parallel Studio XE

Compiler & Libraries

• Includes Intel Composer XE package which contains the next-generation C/C++ and Fortran compilers (v 12.0) and performance and parallel libraries, Intel Math Kernel Library (Intel MKL) 10.3, Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) 7.0, and Intel Threading Building Blocks (Intel TBB) 3.0.
• The latest Intel C/C++ compiler, Intel C++ Compiler XE 12.0, optimizes for the latest Intel Architecture (IA) processor, code-named Sandy Bridge, with Intel AVX support.
• The package contains Intel Parallel Building Blocks (Intel PBB), which includes advances in mixing and matching task, vector, and data parallelism in applications to better map to the multicore optimization opportunities. The technologies included are Intel Cilk Plus, Intel Threading Building Blocks (Intel TBB), and Intel Array Building Blocks (Intel ArBB) (In beta, available separately).
• Support for vector optimizations with Intel AVX, with SIMD pragmas, and help in auto-parallelization for the highest performance and parallelism on the latest IA multicore CPUs are some additional capabilities.
• Intel Fortran Compiler XE 12.0 also includes several advances, among them more complete support for the Fortran 2003 standard and some support for Fortran 2008 standards, including Co-Array Fortran, vector optimizations with AVX, and help in auto-parallelization, for the highest performance and parallelism on the latest x86 multicore CPUs.
• Intel's performance libraries continue to provide an easy way to include highly optimized and automatically parallel math and scientific functions and data processing routines for high-performance users. The math library, Intel MKL 10.3, contains several enhancements, including better Intel AVX support, a summary statistics library, and enhanced C language support for LAPACK. The data processing library, Intel IPP 7.0, contains improved data compression, improved codecs, and support for Intel AVX and AES instructions.

Error Checking

• Finds hard to detect coding defects
• Memory leaks and memory corruption
• Threading data races and deadlocks
• Supports different implementations of threading models including native threads, Intel Parallel Building Blocks and OpenMP*
• Works on standard builds and binaries

Performance Tuning

Fast, Accurate Performance Profiles

• Hotspot (Statistical call tree)
• Hardware-Event Based Sampling

Thread Profiling

• Visualize thread interactions on timeline
• Balance workloads

Easy set-up

• Pre-defined performance profiles
• Use a normal production build

Compatible

• Latest Intel processors and compatible processors
• Intel, Microsoft and GCC compilers
• C/C++, Fortran, Assembly

Find Answers Fast

• Innovative "frame based analysis"
• Filter extraneous data
• View results on the source / assembly
• Event multiplexing

Intel Parallel Studio XE combines Intel's industry-leading C/C++ and Fortran compilers; performance and parallel libraries; error checking, code robustness, and performance profiling tools into a single suite offering.

This helps boost application performance and increase the code quality, security, and reliability needed by high-performance computing and enterprise applications.

At the same time, the suite eases the procurement of all the necessary tools for high performance, and simplifies the transition from multicore to manycore processors in the future.

Intel C++ Studio XE offers the same suite of tools without the Fortran compiler for developers who only need the C++ compiler.

Benefits:

• Performance - Build faster code with optimizing compiler and libraries and eliminate bottlenecks with new performance profiler.
• Reliability - Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen.
• Security - Eliminate software security vulnerabilities through static security analysis.
• Broad Support - Runs on Windows* and Linux* in IDE or standalone.

Intel Parallel Studio XE includes three next-generation revisions of industry-leading products:

• Intel Composer XE 2011 - Optimizing compilers and high-performance libraries
• Intel Inspector XE 2011 - Powerful thread and memory error checker
• Intel VTune Amplifier XE - Advanced performance profiler

Advanced optimizations boost performance
The compilers and libraries in Intel Composer XE offer advanced vectorization support, including support for Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel AVX). The C/C++ optimizing compiler now includes Intel Parallel Building Blocks (Intel PBB), which expands the types of problems that can be solved with increased scale and reliability, while also simplifying the process.

Advanced Performance Features

• Intel Parallel Building Blocks (Intel PBB) and OpenMP 3.0 simplifies implementing efficient parallel code.
• Optimized libraries provide math functions in Intel Math Kernel Library and functions in many other domains like compression, crypto, and image processing in Intel Integrated Performance Primitives provide automatic parallelization and performance.
• High-Performance Parallel Optimizer (HPO) offers an improved ability to analyze, optimize, and parallelize more loop nests.
• Interprocedural Optimization (IPO) dramatically improves performance of small- or medium-sized functions that are used frequently, especially programs that contain calls within loops.
• Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) improves application performance by reducing instruction-cache thrashing, reorganizing code layout, shrinking code size, and reducing branch mispredictions.

New Fortran Features
Intel Fortran Compiler XE 12.0 also includes several advances, among them more complete support for the Fortran 2003 standard and some support for Fortran 2008 standards, including Co-Array Fortran, vector optimizations with Intel AVX, and help in auto-parallelization, for the highest performance and parallelism on the latest x86 multicore CPUs.

Intel Fortran Compiler New Features

Intel Inspector XE Capabilities

Reliability
Intel Inspector XE memory, thread and security analyzer; Finds and pinpoints memory and threading errors before they happen.

Security and Quality
Intel Parallel Studio XE enables developers to effectively find software security vulnerabilities through static security analysis.

Intel Inspector XE Capabilities
Intel VTune Amplifier XE Capabilities

Tune for Increased Serial and Parallel Performance
Intel VTune Amplifier XE performance profiler finds bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. Improvements include more intuitive interface, fast statistical call graph, and timeline view.