Intel Parallel Studio Xe 2017 ^hot^
Intel structured Parallel Studio XE 2017 into three distinct editions, allowing development teams to choose the level of optimization and analysis required for their specific projects. 1. Composer Edition
A tool for vectorization optimization and thread prototyping.
Everything in Professional Edition + Intel MPI Library, Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector. Strategic Significance: The Rise of AVX-512 and Xeon Phi
A tool to visualize MPI application behavior and eliminate cluster bottlenecks. intel parallel studio xe 2017
: Included the Intel® Distribution for Python* to accelerate data science and analytics workloads. System Requirements Intel® Parallel StudIo Xe 2017 24 Aug 2016 —
| Component | Composer Edition | Professional Edition | Cluster Edition | | :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: | | | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Intel Fortran Compiler 17.0 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Intel Distribution for Python | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library (DAAL) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | Intel VTune Amplifier XE | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | | Intel Advisor | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | | Intel Inspector | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | | Intel MPI Library | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | | Intel Trace Analyzer & Collector | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
VTune Amplifier is arguably the most enduring tool in the suite. The 2017 version introduced , a critical evolution. Intel structured Parallel Studio XE 2017 into three
Modern processors feature wide SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) registers capable of processing multiple data points in a single clock cycle. Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 provides advanced compilers and analysis tools to help developers exploit AVX-512 and AVX2 instruction sets, transforming scalar loops into highly efficient vectorized operations. 2. Threading (Task Parallelism)
: Full support for C++14 and Fortran 2008 , with initial drafts for C++ 2017 and Fortran 2015.
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 proved instrumental in accelerating the simulation. The team utilized the tool's features, such as: Everything in Professional Edition + Intel MPI Library,
amplxe-cl -collect hotspots -result-dir my_results ./myapp_fast amplxe-gui my_results
Highly optimized functions for linear algebra (BLAS, LAPACK), Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT), and vector math.
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 is a comprehensive, integrated toolkit designed to simplify the design, development, debugging, and tuning of high-performance applications that run in parallel. It is a suite of compilers, libraries, and analysis tools that enable software to extract maximum performance from modern Intel processors and coprocessors. The suite supports three primary forms of parallelism: (using OpenMP and Intel Cilk Plus), vector parallelism (utilizing SIMD and AVX instructions), and MPI process parallelism for distributed computing across clusters.
Intel VTune Amplifier XE: A powerful performance profiler that helped developers identify hotspots and bottlenecks. The 2017 version added "Memory Access" analysis to find stalls caused by inefficient memory usage.
For diagnosing bottlenecks across cluster nodes. Key Features and Enhancements in the 2017 Release
