New OpenCL™ Runtime 16.1 for Intel® Core™ 6th generation and Intel® Xeon® v4 Processors.

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New OpenCL™ Runtime 16.1 for Intel® Core™ and Intel® Xeon® Processors.

What’s new in this release:

• Support for Intel® Core™ 6th generation and Xeon® v4 processors (former Intel microarchitecture codename Broadwell)

• Support for OpenCL™ 2.0 specification

• Improved cross-CPU support of pre-compiled kernel binary in Runtime:

  • Enables loading pre-generated kernel binaries that saves OpenCL program build time. For more information, see https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/540584

  • Enables generating a JIT binary for target CPU model by the Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ - Offline Compiler. For more information, seehttps://software.intel.com/en-us/node/539388

• Bug and memory leak fixes.

• Compiler infrastructure update to LLVM version 3.6.2