Intel(R) MPSS 3.2 released!

[BelindaLiviero]

Intel(R) MPSS 3.2 is now available.   See  http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-manycore-platform-software-stack-mpss

A summary of the most notable features and changes:

• Coprocessor user authentication supports LDAP and NIS
• Support for NFS Automounter and NFSV4
• Support for the OFED SRP Storage Driver included
• New COI APIs are introduced. For details, please see COI release_notes.txt in /usr/share/doc/intel-coi-3.2*
• Crash Manager has been renamed to "Intel® Xeon Phi™ Products Reliability Monitor"
• mmap support for Windows 8 included
• The Software for Coprocessor OS (k1om* tarball) is available (although not all packages inside the tarball can be installed due to dependency issues; please check the release notes for a list of RPMs)
• Performance improvement to file I/O being released for experimentation purposes (**)
• HwCfg tool has been deprecated, this functionality has been moved to MicConfig
• micaccessapi SDK which was previously deprecated, has been removed from the 3.2 release

(**) There will be another document that explains all changes in greater detail, which we will share as soon as published (I'll note this thread - feel free subscribe to it if you want to see updates).

These were the Intel(R) Compiler and Intel(R) Vtune Analyzer(tm) versions validated with this release: 

• Intel Composer XE 2013 SP1 Update 1 and Update 2 
• Intel(R) VTune(TM) Amplifier XE 2013 Update 16
  • Official Packages:
    • Windows (build #342405)            w_amplxe_pu_2013.16.078
    • Linux (build #342405)                  l_amplxe_pu_2013.16.078

Additionally, an LDAP configuration guide was published - see http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/setting-up-ldap-support-for-intel-xeon-phi-coprocessors

[BelindaLiviero]

You can find a more comprehensive list of the changes in the release notes at http://registrationcenter.intel.com/irc_nas/4042/releaseNotes-linux.txt

[BelindaLiviero]

More information about the new features of MPSS 3.2 is available (in greater detail) here:

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/prominent-features-of-the-intel-manycore-platform-software-stack-intel-mpss-version-32-0

[Tejeswini_S_]

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