Intel® Cluster Studio XE 2012

Features

Intel Cluster Studio XE 2012 includes:

Intel Composer XE

Intel Composer XE includes Intel C++ and Fortran compilers. They feature multicore optimisations, support for distributed memory CAF and support for hybrid models of parallelism with MPI and threading models like OpenMP, Intel Cilk Plus and Intel TBB.

Intel MPI Library

Intel MPI Library implements the MPI-2 specification across multiple fabrics to enhance application performance on clusters using Intel processors. In addition it provides an abstraction layer than enables you to modify cluster interconnects without having to make major changes to the software.

Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector

Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector enables you to analyse and optimise applications running on Intel architecture-based clusters. With Trace Analyzer and Collector you can quickly identify performance issues, visualise parallel application performance, evaluate load balancing, analyse performance down to subroutines or the code block level and much more.

Intel Inspector XE

Intel Inspector XE enhances developer productivity and facilitates application reliability by effectively finding crucial memory and threading defects early in the development cycle. It uses static and dynamic code analysis to find latent, intermittent and non-deterministic threading errors.

Intel VTune Amplifier XE

Intel VTune Amplifier XE is a powerful performance profiling tool to quickly find, and provide greater insights into, multicore performance bottlenecks using the on-chip Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) available on every Intel processor.

Intel Threading Building Blocks

Intel Threading Building Blocks (Intel TBB) is a widely used, award-winning C++ template library. Take advantage of task-based routines that scale to all available processor cores and work across multiple platforms but do not require low level threading programming.

Intel Math Kernel Library

Intel Math Kernel Library (Intel MKL) is a library of highly optimised, extensively threaded math routines for science, engineering, and financial applications that require maximum performance. Core math functions include BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Sparse Solvers, Fast Fourier Transforms, Vector Math and much more.

Intel Integrated Performance Primitives

Intel Integrated Performance Primitives provide a library of ready-to-use, highly optimised functions in the areas of media and data processing. Intel Integrated Performance Primitives features functions in a range of categories including video and audio coding, image coding and processing, speech recognition, data compression, cryptography, vector and matrix mathematics, ray tracing/rendering and more.

Intel Cilk Plus

Intel Cilk Plus is an extension to C and C++ that offers a quick, easy and reliable way to improve the performance of programs on multicore processors. Write parallel programs using a simple model with only three keywords to learn and utilise data parallelism by simple array notations that include elemental function capabilities.

Intel Static Security Analysis

Static security analysis identifies errors and security weaknesses through deep analysis of source code. Quickly find over 250 security vulnerabilities such as: buffer overflows, memory leaks, incorrect usage of pointers, dead or redundant code etc. and map results back to source code.

Benefits

Scale performance

High-performance compilers, parallel models and libraries, with advanced performance optimisations provide scalable performance:

• MPI latency - the performance of Intel MPI Library is up to 6.5x faster than alternative MPI libraries
• Compiler performance - industry-leading Intel C, C++ and Fortran compilers with advanced performance optimisations
• Thread profiling and tuning - VTune Amplifier XE is now MPI enabled for every node.

Scale forward

Develop code that scales on Intel Xeon processors today and extends to the Intel Many Integrated Core (Intel MIC) architecture:

• MPI capacity - Intel MPI Library scales beyond 90k processes
• Parallel programming models - commercially supported Intel versions of open source Intel Threading Building Blocks and Intel Cilk Plus for threading parallelism.

Scale efficiency

Rapidly develop and deploy reliable HPC applications with powerful threading and correctness tools:

• Thread and memory correctness - Inspector XE is now MPI enabled for every node
• MPI correctness - increased productivity in finding MPI errors
• Rapid performance profiling - Intel VTune Amplifier finds hotspots faster
• Parallel programming models - parallelise code using three keywords with Intel Cilk Plus and Intel TBB templates for simple and robust scalable task based parallelism.

System Req.

Processor support

Validated for use with multiple generations of Intel and compatible processors including but not limited to: 2nd Generation Intel Core2 processor, Intel Core2 processor, Intel Core processor and Intel Xeon processor.

Operating systems

Windows and Linux.

Programming languages

Natively supports C, C++ and Fortran development.

Support

All product updates, Intel Premier Support services and Intel Support Forums are included for one year.