The latest oneAPI 2022.3 release is now available! This update includes enhancements to CUDA migration, oneMKL, OpenMP, OpenVKL, and so much more.
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Now Available: Intel® oneAPI 2022.3 Tools Available
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Enabling an Open, Multiarchitecture World
The newest update of Intel® oneAPI Toolkits and standalone tools is now available for direct download and/or use in the Intel® DevCloud for oneAPI. More than 30 tools are included in this release, each optimized to deliver improved performance and expanded capabilities for data-centric workloads.
Intel oneAPI Toolkits are purpose-built to optimize and accelerate cross-architecture and heterogeneous computing, delivering to developers open choice without sacrificing performance or functionality.
The toolkits provide compilers, languages, libraries, and analysis and debug tools that implement industry standards including SYCL*, C++, C, Python, Fortran, MPI, and OpenMP* as well as optimized versions of popular AI frameworks and Python libraries.
2022.3 Highlights:
Compilers
- Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler adds more SYCL 2020 features to improve programming productivity on various hardware accelerators including GPUs and FPGAs and enhances OpenMP 5.x compliance.
- Intel® Fortran Compiler adds Fortran 2008 and 2018 coarrays, DLLImport/DLLExport, DO CONCURRENT offload support, and -int and additional -check compiler options.
CUDA*-to-SYCL Porting
- Intel® DPC++ Compatibility Tool supports more complete CUDA-to-SYCL code migration by adding support for CUDA 11.7 header files and CUDA runtimes and driver APIs including cuDNN, NCCL, Thrust, cuBLAS, and cuFFT.
- The SYCLomatic Project expands Intel’s support of open computing with an open source version of the Compatibility Tool, which enables community collaboration to advance adoption of the SYCL standard.
Performance Libraries
- Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library adds BLAS GPU device-timing support to ensure faster and easier detecting of exceptions and quicker recovery; improves portability and compatibility by extending OpenMP cluster offload capability to support the OpenMP 5.1 spec for LAPACK.
- Intel® oneAPI DPC++ Library expands support of the C++ standard library in SYCL kernels with nine additional heap and sorting algorithms to simplify the coding of common functions.
- Intel® oneAPI Video Processing Library includes the ability to provide extensive data about what is encoded, thereby opening up opportunities for quality improvement and algorithm innovation.
Analysis & Debug Tools
- Intel® VTune™ Profiler, Intel® Advisor, and Intel® Inspector include recent versions of 3rd party components including function and security updates.
- Intel® Distribution for GDB* enhances usability and stability for seamless GPU-side debugging.
- Intel® Cluster Checker supports the IBM Spectrum LSF* workload management platform for demanding, distributed HPC environments.
AI and Analytics
- Intel® Extension for PyTorch* is updated to 1.12.100, includes automatic INT8 quantization, and adds operation and graph enhancements to improve performance across a broad set of workloads.
- Intel® Optimization for TensorFlow* is updated to TensorFlow 2.9.1, includes performance improvements for bfloat16 models, and removes compiler requirement to enable oneDNN optimizations on Linux*-based Cascade Lake and newer CPUs.
- Intel® Neural Compressor improves productivity with a lighter binary size, a new quantization accuracy feature and experimental auto-coding support, plus adds support for TensorFlow quantization API, QDQ quantization for ITEX, mixed-precision enhancement, DyNAS, training for block-wise structure sparsity, and op-type wise tuning strategy.
Rendering & Ray Tracing
- Intel® Open Volume Kernel Library improves performance and memory efficiencies and adds support for VDB volumes (packed/contiguous data layouts for temporally constant volumes) and Intel® AVX-512 8-wide CPU device mode.
- Intel® OSPRay supports primitive, object, and instance ID buffers as framebuffer channels, and face-varying attributes for mesh and subdivision geometry.
- Intel® Embree supports the Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler.
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Heterogeneous Parallel
Programming Using
oneAPI Base & HPC toolkit
WEDNESDAY, 23RD MARCH 2022 | 3:00PM – 5:30PM IST
Aditech is delighted to present this webinar on Intel® oneAPI. Dive into the specifics of utilising Intel® Software Development Tools to deliver compute-intense applications that take advantage of the hardware on which they are deployed.
Participate in this webinar to learn about the fundamentals of Cross-Architecture programming, Heterogeneous Computing, and Accelerating Data Science and Al
Pipelines with Intel® oneAPI Toolkits for AI, HPC, DPC++, C++, and Fortran Developers.
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE WEBINAR’S MAIN TAKEAWAYS:
» Fundamental understanding of Intel® oneAPI domain-based toolkits. Intel® oneAPI Base & HPC Tool Kit, Intel oneAPI latest version 2022
» About Intel® oneAPI Al Analytics Toolkit for data scientists, Al developers, and researchers familiar Python* tools and frameworks to accelerate end-to-end data science and analytics pipelines on Intel® architectures
» Understand oneAPI and how it is beneficial for all types of hardware
» Insights about Intel® Compliers
» Learn how to profile and offload source code using Intel* Tools
» Free 90 days DevCloud access for testing with different hardware
» Overview of the DPC++ language
» Live demos with samples codes
» Sample codes for practice
» oneAPI products variants and licensing models overview
Programming Using
oneAPI Base & HPC toolkit
WEDNESDAY, 23RD MARCH 2022 | 3:00PM – 5:30PM IST
Now Available: Version 2022.1 of Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
Highlights : The latest release is now available and offers new features, capabilities, and improvements (over 900 since the 2021 release last December) that deliver peak performance and accelerate heterogeneous computing.
Key highlights :
Compilers
- Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler adds SYCL 2020 features to improve programming productivity plus OpenMP 5.0 & 5.1 features to improve multi-platform, shared-memory programming.
- Intel® Fortran Compiler is production-ready for CPUs and GPUs and supports OpenMP 5.2 compute offload to GPUs, Fortran 2003, and the most common Fortran 2008 features.
Analysis Tools
- Intel® VTune™ Profiler Flame Graph feature allows visualization of performance hotspots.
- New GPU-to-GPU and CPU-to-GPU offload modeling enables performance projections before code changes are made.
High-Performance Computing
- Intel® MPI Library includes new performance optimizations for Google Cloud Platform fabric (OFI/tcp).
- Development and distribution platforms have expanded support, including VSCode integration, WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux), and Spack for HPC tools package management.
Rendering & Ray Tracing
- Intel® oneAPI Rendering Toolkit adds support for the latest ray tracing techniques, including BVH traversal and intersection, FP16 data format support, Wilkie Sun Sky light sources, rolling shutter, quaternion motion blur, and VDB structure support.
Hardware Platforms
- Cross-architecture development is supported for Python (via Data Parallel Python for CPUs and GPUs) and Fortran in addition to C++.
- All toolkits are ready for the latest hardware, including Alder Lake, pre-release software development for Sapphire Rapids, and upcoming client and datacenter GPUs.
With oneAPI, you can realize your full hardware value, confidently develop high-performing cross-architecture code, and ensure your applications are future-ready.
Customer quotes :
What Customers are Saying
“Moving to a cross-architecture model for application development can save significant time and money—over 5 months and $300,000 each time a performance-sensitive application is moved to a new computing platform.” – J. Gold Associates research report
“We used Intel’s denoiser on every shot of The Addams Family 2 and were able to gain a 10% to 20%—and sometimes 25%—efficiency in rendering, saving thousands of hours in rendering production time. – Kenny Chang, Head of Lighting, Cinesite Studios
“Intel® Advisor—and specifically the Roofline Model—really allows us Customers to understand what is possible and what the performance could be for our specific workloads.” – Ilias Katsardis, HPC Solution Lead, Google Cloud
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Subhead : Intel® oneAPI Priority Support
Priority Support tout :
Get professional answers from Intel engineers—technical questions, problems, issues, and more. Your Intel oneAPI commercial toolkits come with:
- Priority Support via our Online Service Center for at least one year from your date of purchase. You can extend/renew it at a highly discounted rate.
- Direct and private interaction with Intel’s support engineers. Customers submit confidential support requests.
- Accelerated response time for technical questions and other product needs.
- Priority Support for escalated defects and feature requests.
- Free download access to all new product updates and continued access to older versions of the product.
- Access to a vast library of self-help documentation, how-to articles, and videos that build off decades of experience with creating high-performance code.
- Access to Intel public community forums supported by community technical experts and monitored by Intel engineers.
- Optional Services at additional cost: Onsite/online training and consultation by Intel technical consulting engineers