What's New in the 2015 Beta
This suite of products brings together exciting new technologies along with improvements to Intel’s existing software development tools:
- Get guidance on how to boost performance safely without creating threading bugs using the Intel® Advisor XE 2015 Beta. These improvements include scaling to a larger number of processors and improved viewing and advanced modeling of suitability information on both Intel® Xeon® and Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors.
- Suitability modeling for Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors is available as an experimental feature by setting the environment variable ADVIXE_EXPERIMENTAL=suitability_xeon_phi_modeling
- Ever wonder what calling sequence led to the code that caused all those cache misses? Find out with the new Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE 2015 Beta! Added support for remote collection from the GUI, new GPU and Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions analysis, and the ability to view your results on computers running OS X*.
- Now you can debug memory and threading errors with Intel® Inspector XE 2015 Beta! For thread checking, take advantage of 3X performance improvement and reduction in memory overhead. For memory checking take advantage of advancements in the on-demand leak detection and memory growth controls as well as the brand new memory usage graph.
- Now utilize new Parallel direct sparse Solvers for clusters (CPARDISO) and optimizations for the latest Intel® Architectures with the Intel® Math Kernel Library 11.2 Beta! Get insight into Intel® MKL’s settings via new verbose mode and take advantage of the Intel® MKL Cookbook to help assemble the correct routines for solving complex problems.
- Leverage the latest language features in Intel® Composer XE 2015 Beta, including full language support for C++11 (/Qstd=c++11 or -std=c++11) and Fortran 2003, Fortran 2008 Blocks, and OpenMP* 4.0 (except user-defined reductions). Gain new insights into optimization opportunities such as vectorization or inlining with redesigned optimization reports (/Qopt-report or -opt-report). Exploit Intel® Graphics Technology for additional performance with new offload computing APIs. Use the new "icl" and "icl++" compilers on OS X* for improved compatibility with the clang/LLVM* toolchain. The Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives has added support for the Intel® Xeon® Phi™ co-processor.
- Existing users of optimization reports (opt-report, vec-report, openmp-report, or par-report) or the Intel® C++ Compiler for Linux (-ansi-alias is now default) should refer to the product release notes for more information
- Get highly-optimized out-of-the-box performance for your MPI applications with the Intel® MPI Library 5.0 Beta! Now’s the time to take advantage of the new MPI-3 functionality, such as non-blocking collectives, and fast one-sided communication, as well as test binary compatibility with existing codes.
- Extract complete insight into your distributed memory application and quickly find performance bottlenecks and MPI issues using the Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector 9.0 Beta! In addition to support for the latest MPI-3 features, the new Performance Assistant automatically detects common MPI performance issues and quickly provides resolution tips.
A detailed description of the new features in the 2015 Beta products is available in the Intel® Software Development Tools 2015 Beta Program: What's New document.
Details
This beta program is available for IA-32 architecture-based processors and Intel® 64 architecture-based processors for Linux* and Windows*. The Intel beta compilers and libraries for OS* X are also included in this beta program.
During this Beta period, you will be provided access to the Intel® Cluster Studio XE 2015 Beta package – a superset containing all Intel® Software Development Tools. At the time of download, you can select to install individual products or the full suite.
Early access to some components of the 2015 Beta will be available the first week of April. These components will include the Intel® C++ Composer XE 2015 Beta and the Intel® Fortran Composer XE 2015 Beta.
The full Intel® Software Development Products 2015 Beta packages (including the Intel® Cluster Studio XE 2015 Beta files) will be available in mid-April, once the 2015 Beta program commences.
Frequently Asked Questions
A complete list of FAQs regarding the 2015 Beta can be found in the Intel® Software Development Tools 2015 Beta Program: Frequently Asked Questions document.
Beta duration
The beta program officially ends July 11th, 2014. The beta license provided will expire September 25th, 2014. At the conclusion of the beta program, you will be asked to complete a survey regarding your experience with the beta software.
Support
Technical support will be provided via Intel® Premier Support. The Intel® Registration Center will be used to provide updates to the component products during this beta period.
To enroll in this beta program
Complete the pre-beta survey at the registration link
- Information collected from the pre-beta survey will be used to evaluate beta testing coverage. Here is a link to the Intel Privacy Policy.
- Keep the beta product serial number provided for future reference
- After registration, you will be taken to the Intel Registration Center to download the product
- After registration, you will be able to download all available beta products at any time by returning to the Intel Registration Center
Note: At the end of the beta program you should uninstall the beta product software.
Your next steps:
- Review the Intel® Software Development Tools 2015 Beta What's New document and FAQ
- Install the Intel® Software Development Tools 2015 Beta product(s)
- Try it out and share your experience with us!
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