Join the Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2018 Beta program

[Anoop_M_Intel]

We would like to invite you to participate in the Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2018 Beta program. In this beta test, you will gain early access to new features and analysis techniques. Try them out, tell us what you love and what to improve, so we can make our products better for you. 

Registration is easy. Complete the pre-beta survey, register, and download the beta software:
           Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2018 Pre-Beta survey

The 2018 version brings together exciting new technologies along with improvements to Intel’s existing software development tools:

Modernize Code for Performance, Portability and Scalability on the Latest Intel® Platforms

• Use fast Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) instructions on Intel® Xeon® and Intel® Xeon® Phi™ processors and coprocessors
• Intel® Advisor - Roofline finds high impact, but under optimized loops
• Intel® Distribution for Python* - Faster Python* applications
• Stay up-to-date with the latest standards and IDE:
  • C++2017 draft parallelizes and vectorizes C++ easily using Parallel STL*
  • Full Fortran* 2008, Fortran 2015 draft
  • OpenMP* 5.0 draft, Microsoft Visual Studio* 2017
• Accelerate MPI applications with Intel® Omni-Path Architecture

Flexibility for Your Needs

• Application Snapshot - Quick answers:  Does my hybrid code need optimization?
• Intel® VTune™ Amplifier – Profile private clouds with Docker* and Mesos* containers, Java* daemons

And much more…
For more details about this beta program, a FAQ, and What’s New, visit: Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2018 Beta page.

As a highly-valued customer and beta tester, we welcome your feedback to our development teams via this program at our Online Service Center.

[TimP]

Apparently, the addition of pstl has made TBB mandatory when installing C++.  So why is there an option to ask for C++ without TBB, which breaks the installer, at least on Windows?  Still, I don't see pstl include files in the installation.

Is it reasonable to expect that past combinations of plain STL with OpenMP will continue to work?  e.g. not running into issues such as KMP_BLOCKTIME delaying TBB from using hardware threads?

I suppose the above comment about Phi is an oblique way of informing us that support for MIC KNC has been withdrawn.

[Ilya_K_Intel1]

Hello Tim,

you said, an option to ask for C++ without TBB breaks the installer on Windows. Could you please explain what kind of breaking do you mean? Is installer crashed or you faced with another incorrect behavior during installation process?

[Royi]

When can we expect the final release?

Thank You.

[Anoop_M_Intel]

Intel Compiler 18.0 Gold Release is scheduled for mid of september (subject to change).