Intel Software have launched their latest version of Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 Update 2. This software development suite combines Intel's C/C++ compiler and Fortran compiler; performance and parallel libraries; error checking, code robustness, and performance profiling tools into a single suite offering.

Intel Parallel Studio XE tool suite simplifies the design, development, debug, and tuning of code that utilizes parallel processing to boost application performance. Get more application performance with less effort on compatible Intel processors and coprocessors.

New in this release:

- All components updated to current versions
- Migration to SHA-256 digital signatures on Linux
- Intel Advisor:
Roofline Analysis is released as a public feature
Added call stacks for FLOPS and Trip Counts that enable total metrics
Filter by module for Survey, FLOPS, and Trip Counts collections
- Intel Cluster Checker:
Added additional support for Intel Xeon Phi product family x200 processors
Added additional support for Intel Omni-Path Architecture
- Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library:
Added Deep Learning feature extensions
Added API extensions for data parallelism scheme
- Intel Inspector: Support for C++17 std::shared_mutex
- Intel Integrated Performance Primitives:
Introduced support for Intel Xeon Phi processor x200 leverage boot mode in examples
Added new functions in ZLIB to support user-defined Huffman tables
- Intel Math Kernel Library:
Intel AVX-512 code is dispatched by default on Intel Xeon processors
Added support for Intel Threading Building Blocks in various functions
- Intel MPI Library: Added a new environment variable, I_MPI_MEMORY_LOCK, to prevent memory swapping to the hard drive
- Intel Threading Building Blocks:
Added template class gfx_factory to the flow graph API
Fixed a possible deadlock caused by missed wakeup signals in task_arena::execute()
- Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector:
Improved the color changing scheme
MPI Performance Snapshot adds Pcontrol support
MPI Performance Snapshot adds idle time per function metric
- Intel VTune Amplifier XE:
Added support for mixed Python and native code in Locks and Waits analysis
Added support for performance analysis of a guest Linux* operating system via Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) from a Linux host system with the KVM Guest OS option
Enriched HPC Performance Characterization



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