Intel OneAPI 2024.1.0 (Windows & Linux x64)

What’s new in this release

Toolkit Level Updates
– Intel Inspector is no longer included in the Intel HPC Toolkit. It is now downloadable as a standalone package and it will be discontinued in 2025 or later. Details are here.
– Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector is no longer included in the Intel HPC Toolkit. It is now downloadable as a standalone package and it will be discontinued in 2025 or later. Details are here.
Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler 2024.1.0
– The Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler is the industry’s first compiler conformant with SYCL 2020 allowing developers to write code once and run it on a variety of different processors using standard C++ making developers more productive by reducing development time and effort.
– Enhanced SYCL Graph, allowing developers to use multi-threaded work generation and thread-safe functions seamlessly integrate with applications. SYCL ensures thread safety for all member functions, enhancing performance and reliability in parallel computing. SYCL Graph is now available on multiple SYCL backends, allowing developers to tune once and deploying anywhere. Additionally, our CUDA graph alternative offers and open, multi-platform solution, minimizing kernel dispatching overhead and ensuring adaptability across diverse software and hardware stacks.
– Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler enhances OpenMP 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, and TR12 standards compliance.
Intel Fortran Compiler 2024.1.0
– Intel Fortran Compiler adds more Fortran 2023 language features – improving compatibility and interoperability between C and Fortran code in the intrinsic module ISO_C_BINDING; simplifying trigonometric calculations by allowing developers to use intrinsic functions that accept arguments as degrees, enhancing ease of use and code readability; use of predefined data types of specific sizes in intrinsic module ISO_FORTRAN_ENV improving code portability and ensuring consistent behavior, and more.
– Intel Fortran Compiler makes OpenMP Offload programming more productive by adding runtime checks ensuring that mapped data is currently allocated/associated.
– Increased compiler stability by fixing miscellaneous compilation, OpenMP* and runtime issues.
Intel Fortran Compiler Classic 2021.12.0
– The Intel Fortran Compiler Classic has been updated to include recent versions of 3rd party components, which include functional and security updates.

Toolkit Level Updates
– Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit 2024.1.0 now supports Fedora 39 for CPU.
– The Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler is the industry’s first compiler conformant with SYCL 2020 allowing developers to write code once and run it on a variety of different processors using standard C++ making developers more productive by reducing development time and effort.
– Enhanced SYCL Graph, allowing developers to use multi-threaded work generation and thread-safe functions seamlessly integrate with applications. SYCL ensures thread safety for all member functions, enhancing performance and reliability in parallel computing. SYCL Graph is now available on multiple SYCL backends, allowing developers to tune once and deploying anywhere. Additionally, our CUDA graph alternative offers and open, multi-platform solution, minimizing kernel dispatching overhead and ensuring adaptability across diverse software and hardware stacks.
– Migrate to SYCL, build and deploy easier with Intel DPC++ Compatibility Tool migrating more CUDA APIs, and now also migrating the project CMake file as a technology preview
– Develop more future-proof code with the Data Parallel Control library (dpctl), providing 100% conformance to the Python Array API standard and offers new support for Nvidia* devices. New functions include types for reduction, statistics, sorting, set, elementwise, linear algebra, and in-place elementwise operations.
– Intel oneAPI Math Kernel Library 2024.1.0 introduces several optimizations and new functionalities able to reduce the data transfer between Intel GPUs and the host CPU including batched Singular Value Decomposition, batched solver for linear systems and addition of Bessel functions of first and second kinds.
– Unlock performance enhancements with the latest Intel® oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library (oneDNN) including improvements in graphics processing for Intel data center GPUs and Intel® Arc™ Graphics, perfect for complex models like Large Language Models and Stable Diffusion and increased performance for Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
– Ensure accuracy & consistency of your computations with reproducibility of BLAS level 3 operations on Intel GPUs now, using Conditional Numeric Reproducibility (CNR).
– Speed up gradient boosting inference across XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost* without sacrificing accuracy with new fast tree inference1 in Intel® oneAPI Data Analytics Library (oneDAL).
– Enhance your security with Intel IPP Cryptography’s compliance to FIPS 140-3, a U.S govt standard. Ideal for govt agencies and industries that handle sensitive data.
Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler 2024.1.0
– The Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler is the industry’s first compiler conformant with SYCL 2020 allowing developers to write code once and run it on a variety of different processors using standard C++ making developers more productive by reducing development time and effort.
– Enhanced SYCL Graph, allowing developers to use multi-threaded work generation and thread-safe functions seamlessly integrate with applications. SYCL ensures thread safety for all member functions, enhancing performance and reliability in parallel computing. SYCL Graph is now available on multiple SYCL backends, allowing developers to tune once and deploying anywhere. Additionally, our CUDA graph alternative offers and open, multi-platform solution, minimizing kernel dispatching overhead and ensuring adaptability across diverse software and hardware stacks.
– Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler enhances OpenMP 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, and TR12 standards compliance.
Intel oneAPI DPC++ Library 2022.5.0
– Intel oneAPI DPC++ Library adds specialized sort algorithm to improve PVC app performance
– Intel oneAPI DPC++ Library adds transform_if variant with mask input for stencil computation needs
– Intel oneAPI DPC++ Library extends C++ STL style programming with histogram algorithms to accelerate scientific, AI & other apps
Intel DPC++ Compatibility Tool 2024.1.0
– Automatically captures CUDA workload signature to validate migrated SYCL code using Intel® DPC++ Compatibility Tool "CodePin" technology preview
– Migrate to SYCL, build and deploy easier with Intel® DPC++ Compatibility Tool migrating more CUDA APIs, and now also migrating the project CMake file as a technology preview
Intel oneAPI Math Kernel Library 2024.1.0
– Intel oneAPI Math Kernel Library 2024.1.0 introduces several optimizations and new functionalities able to reduce the data transfer between Intel GPUs and the host CPU including batched Singular Value Decomposition, batched solver for linear systems and addition of Bessel functions of first and second kinds.
– This release provides users the ability to reproduce results of BLAS level 3 operations on Intel GPUs from run to run through Conditional Numerical Reproducibility (CNR) that was previously available only for x86 CPUs. Users can configure Intel® oneMKL to ensure bitwise reproducible results.
– Intel oneMKL 2024.1.0 makes it easier to port CUDA applications to SYCL by adding multiple functions equivalent to those available in cuSolver*, cuBLAS* and CUDA Math Library*.
– Improved performance of QR factorization, a key computation in LAPACK, by taking advantage of both the Intel Xeon Processor Family and the Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series.
Intel Distribution for GDB* 2024.1.0
– Intel Distribution for GDB* rebases to GDB* 14 staying current and aligned with the latest enhancements supporting effective application debug.
– Intel Distribution for GDB* adds online page fault handling for GPUs allowing developers to monitor and troubleshoot memory access issues in real-time, while also providing insight into the behavior of the GPU driver, resulting in improved application performance and reliability.
– Intel Distribution for GDB* adds large General Purpose Register File (GRF) debug mode support for GPUs providing developers with more visibility into the GPU’s internal state and allowing for more comprehensive debugging and optimization of GPU-accelerated applications. This mode is particularly useful for debugging complex or performance-critical code.
Intel VTune Profiler 2024.1.0
– Intel VTune Profiler 2024.1.0 adds capability to identify and understand the reasons of implicit Unified Shared Memory data movements between Host and GPU causing performance inefficiencies in SYCL* applications. It also correlates the data transfers with compute tasks execution on GPU.
– Intel VTune Profiler 2024.1.0 adds support for .NET 8, Ubuntu 23.10 and FreeBSD 14.0.
Intel Advisor 2024.1.0
– Intel Advisor 2024.1.0 adds stability, quality improvements and better performance of CPU and GPU Roofline Analysis.
Intel oneAPI Threading Building Blocks 2021.12.0
– Intel oneAPI Threading Building Blocks 2021.12.0 provides several improvements and bug fixes
Intel Integrated Performance Primitives 2021.11.0
– Added the verification part of post-quantum eXtended Merkle Signature Scheme (XMSS) algorithm as a tech preview feature.
– Added FIPS-compliance mode for the library (open-source distribution). More information can be found in the Intel(R) IPP Cryptography FIPS Guide.
– The version of LZ4 (lossless data compression algorithm) in IPP has been updated to v1.9.4.
– IPP NuGet packages have been improved to support .NET Standard 2.0 which allows them to be used in .NET projects (useful for .NET developers.)
Intel oneAPI Collective Communications Library 2021.12.0
– The 2024.1 update to oneCCL delivers even more performance for distributed Deep Learning and Machine Learning Training and Inference workloads. All key communication patterns have been further optimized to not only speed up message passing but also to do so in a memory efficient manner. This release in particular improves Inference performance.
Intel oneAPI Data Analytics Library 2024.2.0
– Speed up gradient boosting inference across XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost* without sacrificing accuracy with new fast tree inference in Intel® oneAPI Data Analytics Library (oneDAL).​
– oneDAL improves clustering by adding spare K-Means support to automatically identify a subset of the features to use in clustering observations and improving K-Means performance.
Intel oneAPI Deep Neural Networks Library 2024.1.0
– Improved performance on Intel Architecture, Graphics, Aarch64-based processors.
– Introduced GPT-Q support to improve Large Language Models (LLMs) performance with compressed weights. Optimized implementation is available for Intel Graphics Products and support matmul with int8 wight compression.
– Introduced fp8 data type support in primitives and Graph API. Optimized implementation is available for Intel Data Center GPU Max Series (formerly Ponte Vecchio).
– Introduced support for fp16 and bf16 scale and shift arguments for layer normalization. Optimized implementation is available for Intel Graphics Products.
– Added opt-in deterministic mode support. Deterministic mode guarantees that results are bitwise identical between runs in a fixed environment.
– For Intel Graphics Products, introduced PReLU post-op support for inner product and matmul primitives.
Deprecation Notices
– Intel Fortran Compiler Classic (ifort) is now deprecated and will be discontinued in late 2024. Intel recommends that customers transition now to using the LLVM-based Intel Fortran Compiler (ifx) for continued Windows* and Linux* support, new language support, new language features, and optimizations.
– For more information on ifx, see the Intel® Fortran Compiler Developer Guide and Reference and the Porting Guide for ifort Users to ifx.
– Flow Graph Analyzer feature of Intel Advisor will be discontinued in 2025 or later. Customers who have purchased Intel Priority Support will continue to receive support.
– 32-bit support for Intel Analyzers is deprecated and will be discontinued in the 2024.2 release.
– Fedora Linux version 38 support on CPU is deprecated with 2024.1 and will be discontinued in a future release.

TheIntel oneAPI Base Toolkitis a core set of tools and libraries for developing high-performance, data-centric applications across diverse architectures. It features an industry-leading C++ compiler and the Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) language, an evolution of C++ for heterogeneous computing. Domain-specific libraries and the Intel Distribution for Python provide drop-in acceleration across relevant architectures. Enhanced profiling, design assistance, and debug tools complete the kit. High-performance computing (HPC) is at the core of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning applications. TheIntel oneAPI HPC Toolkitdelivers what developers need to build, analyze, optimize, and scale HPC applications with the latest techniques in vectorization, multithreading, multi-node parallelization, and memory optimization. Intel oneAPI HPC Toolkit is an add-on to the Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit, which is required for full functionality. It also includes access to the Intel Distribution for Python, the Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler, powerful data-centric libraries, and advanced analysis tools.

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