Invitation to join the Intel® Software Development Tools 2015 Beta program

Hello Intel® C++ User Forum,

Try out the new Intel® Software Development Tools 2015 Beta and help make our product better. Registration is easy through thehttps://softwareproductsurvey.intel.com/survey/150347/2afa/ site. Additional information can be found at http://bit.ly/sw-dev-tools-2015-beta.

This suite of products brings together exciting new technologies along with improvements to Intel’s existing software development tools (more details below): 

• Expanded Standards and Platform Support - Intel® Composer XE 2015 Beta, including full language support for C++11 (/Qstd=c++11 or -std=c++11) and Fortran 2003, Fortran 2008 BLOCK, and OpenMP* 4.0 (except user-defined reductions). Also includes offload to Intel® Graphics Technology, new icl compilers for OS X* for improved Clang*/LLVM* compatibility, and new optimization reporting.  
• Optimized Cluster Sparse Solver - New Parallel direct sparse Solvers for clusters (CPARDISO) and optimizations for the latest Intel® Architectures with the Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL) 11.2 Beta!  
• Profiling Advances - Improved hardware support for the Intel® Graphics Technology and Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions (Intel® TSX) analysis, OS X* view capability, and remote collection for Linux* systems with the new Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE 2015 Beta!  
• Accelerated Memory & Threading Debug - Up to 3x performance improvement and reduction in memory overhead with with Intel® Inspector XE 2015 Beta!  
• Application Scaling - Scale your application by modeling with threading and “what-if’ senarios quickly with Intel® Advisor XE 2015 Beta!  
• MPI-3 Standards Support - Get highly-optimized out-of-the-box performance for your MPI applications with the Intel® MPI Library 5.0 Beta!  
• MPI Performance Assistant - 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.

If you are ready to get started, follow this link to complete the pre-beta survey, register, and download the beta software:http://softwareproductsurvey.intel.com/survey/150347/2afa/

For more details and information about this beta program, check out the Intel® Software Development Tools 2015 Beta page, which includes additional information in the FAQ and What’s New documents.

Any questions?

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We greatly value your input in helping us release quality products.

Sincerely,

The Intel Software Development Products Beta Program Team

Developer Products Division

Intel Corporation

Additional Details

• Intel® Advisor XE - 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
    
     
• Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE - Added support for remote collection from the GUI, new GPU and TSX analysis, and the ability to view your results on Mac* computers.
  
   
• Intel® Inspector XE - 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.
  
   
• Intel® MKL  - Introducing new Parallel Direct Sparse Solvers for clusters (CPARDISO) and optimizations for the latest Intel® Architectures.  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.
  
   
• Intel® Composer - 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
    
     
• Intel® MPI Library - Now’s the time to take advantage of the new MPI-3 functionality, such as non-blocking collectives, and fast one-sided communication.  This release ensures binary compatibility with existing codes.
  
   
• Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector - Extract complete insight into your distributed memory application and quickly find performance bottlenecks and MPI issues.  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.

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