Command prompt and Visual Studio 2010

[Carlo_G_]

I downloaded Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 composer edition for Fortran, evaluation 30 days.

My OS is Windows 8.1.

I cannot find the path to the command prompt with intel compiler (both IA-32 and Intel 64) along with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Shell.

Any help would be highly appreciated, thanks!

[mecej4]

If you have a correct installation, you should be able to locate the shortcut for the command prompt by following these items under the Start menu (I have the Classic Start Menu add-on installed on my Windows 8.1 system):

Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 -- Compiler and Performance Libraries -- Command prompt with Intel ...

You should then see one or two shortcuts (for 32-bit and 64-bit CMD environments).

[Carlo_G_]

Thanks for the quick reply!

That's what i have on another pc with Windows 7, but not on this one and i can't find the reason why.

You wrote about the correct installation, would you please give me a few hints about that?

The installation file i'm using is: w_fcompxe_2015.2.179

[TimP]

I've found the Start Menu X http://www.startmenux.com/index.html necessary as the relationship between Intel software tools and Metro interface has deteriorated while startmenux has improved.

In the current update of win 8.1 (with alphabetical listing of Metro interfaces), I don't find even the original inconvenient Metro tiles available for ifort.  In the early days, it was said that Microsoft asked Intel not to provide a more convenient way to open the command prompt.  Now, in Windows 10,  I think it is somewhat better, but I still prefer Start Menu X.  "correct installation" in Windows 10 meant removing all versions of Intel tools (due to incomplete over-riding of old versions) and re-installing them from scratch.  By the way, I have had to use "special uninstaller" to clean up old Intel tools versions on Win8.1 (where a free Microsoft tool is available for Win7).

In a slight aside, I have the habit of opening the Intel tools command window and running cygwin there, but for some purposes it's then necessary to kill the LIBRARY_PATH entry to make gcc work.

Another peculiarity I find in Win8.1 installation is the requirement for

OMP_NUM_THREADS=2

OMP_PROC_BIND=spread

in order to get full performance of ifort OpenMP.  I have not seen a Windows 8.x installation where the BIOS had a means to disable hyperthreading, but hyperthreading is more detrimental with ifort than with gfortran. 

/Qunroll4 seems to be an important ifort optimization on my Win8.1, particularly where ifort engages vgather (or doesn't vectorize).

Both Visual Studio 2012 Pro and 2013 community are working well with ifort in Win8.1 and Win10. 

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The evaluation license does not include the Visual Studio Shell, as explicitly stated when you request the evaluation, and if you didn't have it when you installed the installer gave you a warning. You can get a trial version of Microsoft Visual Studio from Microsoft or, if you qualify, the free VS2013 Community Edition. You will need to uninstall and reinstall Fortran after installing one of these.

[Carlo_G_]

Dear Steve Lionel,

 i thought the evaluation copy of Parallel Intel 2015 included Visual Studio 2010 Shell, that's the reason why i couldn't find the paths i needed. I'm buying Intel Parallel Studio 2015 Composer Edition Fortran Windows, do you know if it comes with Visual Studio 2010 Shell?

Thanks!

[TimP]

All full purchase versions of Intel tools including ifort provide VS Shell (all except student and evaluation versions).  A portion of the fee goes to Microsoft.  As Steve mentioned, for free evaluations, Microsoft requires you to take out an evaluation license for Visual Studio.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Yes, it does.