Announcing new Beta version of the Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications 2014

[ARNON_P_Intel]

Dear OpenCL developers,

I’m happy to announce the availability of the 2014 Beta version of the OpenCL SDK. Sign up and download now here.

The Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications 2014 Beta extends the already supported Windows* operating systems with the Android*OS support. Comparing to the Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications 2013 version, this new 2014 Beta software brings the following new features and capabilities:

• Support for Android* OS 4.4 (KitKat) as target platform running on Intel® Atom™ processors with Intel HD Graphics, formerly codenamed Bay Trail.
• Introduction of the Code Builder - a single toolset, bundled with the SDK, that includes all SDK 2013 development features and the following new capabilities:
  • Remote OpenCL Kernel development on supported Android devices and emulator
  • OpenCL API level debugging with command tracing, queue, and memory views
  • Integration with Eclipse* IDE
  • Integration with Microsoft Visual Studio* IDE 2013
  • Saving and Restoring sessions in the Kernel Builder
  • (preview) OpenCL kernel performance analysis on Intel Graphics.
  • (preview) Jumpstart wizards - Automatic generation of OpenCL host code with predefined kernels
• Support for Ubuntu* OS 12.4 as the host system for application development
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 support in the OpenCL samples that are available online.

Developing C++/Java apps for Android*?  Try these two new tutorials with code samples:

• Getting Started with RenderScript
• Getting Started with OpenCL on Android OS

Arnon Peleg

OpenCL SDK Product Marketing Manager
Developer Products Division

[James_R_]

Where is the Linux support?  It would be nice to at least release bug fixes before moving on...

http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/499450