Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications 2015 R3 with Awesome New Features is Released!

[Robert_I_Intel]

I am glad to announce the availability of Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications 2015 R3 with awesome new features! We made significant progress in the quality and ease of use. You can proceed straight to downloading the Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications 2015 R3.

New Features in This Release:

• Standalone distribution of Intel® SDK for OpenCL Applications 2015 R3 for Windows* (not part of Intel® INDE)

• Intel Processor Graphics Assembly View Support - View the Intel Processor Graphics assembly code for the OpenCL kernels generated by the SDK and see how the code is mapped to the original OpenCL kernel code in OpenCL Kernel Development (available from the Code Builder plugin to Visual Studio)

• New features in OpenCL Kernel Development:

  • Session generation support - capture kernels execution data from a given application and generate a Kernel Development session

  • Kernel analysis of the execution unit occupancy, and memory latency of the kernel instructions.

  • Support for YUV image format

  • Stability improvements

• New analysis features

  • New guided analysis report with drill down views from host level profiling to kernel analysis

  • Additional analysis views including: OpenCL objects report, hardware counters, memory hierarchy view, and more. 

  • Ability to perform analysis directly on the OpenCL kernel without the need to re-run an entire application.

  • Improved host-level profiling tips.