Does Intel Parallel Studio integrate with VS2015?

[javad_r_]

Hi to all. Does Intel Parallel Studio 2015 integrate with Visual Studio 2015?  If no, when it's supposed to be integrated with VS2015?

[Kevin_D_Intel]

Yes, the Parallel Studio XE 2015 Composer Edition Update 4 (and soon to be released Update 5) will integrate with Visual Studio 2015. Any earlier PSXE 2015 update will *not*.

While I have the space, I'll also add the our most recent Parallel Studio XE 2016 Composer Edition release also integrates with Visual Studio 2015.

Additional information about system requirements is available in the product release notes available here: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-composer-release-notes-by-version

If you are asking about all the products in the Professional and Cluster editions, complete support for VS2015 is planned in Parallel Studio XE 2016 Update 1. Products adding this support in this update include: Intel® Advisor, Intel® Inspector, full Intel® TBB support.

[andrew_4619]

@Kevin

Interesting, there will be an update 5 for 2015? Is there parallel development of 2015 and 2016? Is there any fixed time frame fro 2016 update 1 BTW.

Thanks

Andrew

[Kevin_D_Intel]

Yes, PSXE 2015 Update 5 should be released very soon. Could be this week or early next. Update 5 is currently the final planned update for PSXE 2015 release.

PSXE 2016 Update 1 is targeted for mid Q4 this year.

Yes, our release cadence leads to parallel development but not all bugfix and feature content added to them is equal. Some bugfix changes are deemed higher risk and may only be targeted to a particular release and new features appear in new releases. The 2016 release has been in development and Beta earlier this year while we continued to provide updates to PSXE 2015.

[Michel_L_]

It seem's that Intel(R) Visual Fortran Composer XE 2013 SP1 Update 3 is not supported in VS2015.

I really don't understand why? perhaps for making us buy the last version. I think it's a pity that we have to do so.

All the best

[Kevin_D_Intel]

As noted in earlier in this post, the support for Visual Studio 2015 was introduced in our PSXE 2015 Update 4 release.

It is not a matter of making customers buy the latest version. Our subscription model provides customers with free upgrades to all updates (to the existing release) and new version releases within in the window that their subscription is valid, typically a 1-year window. The timing of our releases and Microsoft releases influences decisions about which versions to integrate with one another. We provided the VS2015 integration support in an update to our current release (PSXE 2015) at the time that aligned with the VS2015 release earlier this year. Consideration/care is also given to ensuring not to break integrations or compatibility with existing supported Visual Studio versions relating to both our Fortran and C++ compilers. Our model of Visual Studio support has been consistent for many years, where versions supported are a moving window of specific Visual Studio versions with support of older versions dropping off in newer releases and support of new versions being added in current and future releases.

I hope that helps understand a little more about the Visual Studio support in our product.

[Michel_L_]

Thanks for the explanation.

I understand what you mean but as the support for VS2015 is (for me) just to have the possibility to launch the Fortran Compiler 2013 from the VS2015 IDE as If you want to add an external tool from the Tools VS menu. Perhaps we could have a minimal support versus a complete support with the new versions of XE.

By the way thanks you for your explanations.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

If you install a newer version of Parallel Studio XE, you can still use some older versions in Visual Studio. See here. However, this is limited to compiler versions that already supported that version of Visual Studio.