Download Intel System Studio 2016 Beta

Download Intel® System Studio 2016 Beta

Intel^® System Studio 2016 Beta

Register and Download HERE

Note: if you are interested in a FreeBSD* OS based target of Intel System Studio 2016 Beta, or support for unreleased platforms please contact IntelSystemStudio@intel.com for more information.

We recommend the online installer option. It provides a speedy download with many options tailored for your unique host/target environment. You can email us direct at intelsystemstudio@intel.com if you have any questions in getting set up.

What’s New in the 2016 Beta?

We are pleased to announce the release of Intel® System Studio 2016 Beta which offers a wide variety of new features and advances described below. Please also visit our tips and tricks page for in-depth articles specifically on the new beta. We have written over 100 articles covering a complete embedded developer workflow: debugging, power/performance analysis, and compiler/libraries.

Support for the latest embedded/mobile platforms (additional upcoming platforms available under NDA)

• Intel® Atom™ x3, x5, x7 SoC Processor Series
• Intel® Core™ M Processors
• Intel® Xeon™ Processor E7 Family

Intel^® C++ Compiler

What’s New:

Support and optimizations for

• Enhanced C++11 feature support
• Enhanced C++14 feature support
• FreeBSD* support
• Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 7
• Deprecated Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 5.

ChromeOS* Target – New Component Support

• Intel® Compiler 16.0
• Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives 9.0
• Intel® System Debugger

Clang Compiler and VTune Support for FreeBSD*

• Invite-only separate package
• Please intelsystemstudio@intlel.com for more information on this product

Intel^® VTune™ Amplifier for Systems

What’s New:

• Basic hotspots, Locks & Waits and EBS with stacks for RT kernel and RT application for Linux Targets
• EBS based stack sampling for kernel mode threads
• Support for Intel® Atom™ x7 Z8700 & x5 Z8500/X8400 processor series (Cherry Trail) including GPU analysis

Additional minor new features:

• KVM guest OS profiling from host based on Linux Perf tool
• Support for analysis of applications in virtualized environment (KVM). Requires Linux kernels > 3.2 and Qemu version > 1.4
• Automated remote EBS analysis on SoFIA  (by leveraging existing sampling driver on target)
• Super Tiny display mode added for the Timeline pane to easily identify problem areas for results with multiple processes/threads
• Platform window replacing Tasks and Frames window and providing CPU, GPU, and bandwidth metrics data distributed over time
• General Exploration analysis views extended to display confidence indication (greyed out font) for non-reliable metrics data resulted, for example, from the low number of collected samples
• GPU usage analysis for OpenCL™ applications extended to display compute-originated batch buffers on the GPU software queue in the Timeline pane (Linux* target only)
• New filtering mode for command line reports to display data for the specified column names only

Intel® Inspector for Systems improvements

What’s New:

• Added support for DWARF Version 4 symbolics.
• Improved custom install directory process.
• For Windows,
  • Added limited support for memory growth when analyzing applications containing Windows* fibers.

GNU GDB* Updates

What’s New:

• GDB Features
  • The version of GDB provided as part of Intel® System Studio 2016 is based on GDB version 7.8. Notably, it contains the following features added by Intel:
• Data Race Detection (pdbx):
  • Detect and locate data races for applications threaded using POSIX* threads
• Branch Trace Store (btrace):
  • Record branches taken in the execution flow to backtrack easily after events like crashes, signals, exceptions, etc.
• Pointer Checker:
  • Assist in finding pointer issues if compiled with Intel® C++ Compiler and having
  • Pointer Checker feature enabled (see Intel® C++ Compiler documentation for more information)
• Intel® Processor Trace (Intel® PT) Support:
  • Improved version of Branch Trace Store supporting Intel® TSX. For 5th generation
• Intel® Core™ Processors and later access it via command:
  • (gdb) record btrace pt
  • Those features are only provided for the command line version and are not supported via the Eclipse* IDE Integration.

Intel® Debugger for Heterogeneous Compute 2016

The version of Intel® Debugger for Heterogeneous Compute 2016 provided as part of Intel® System Studio 2016 uses GDB version 7.6. It provides the following features:

• Debugging applications containing offload enabled code to Intel® Graphics Technology
• Eclipse* IDE integration

Intel^® System Debugger

What’s New:

• Windows* support for BIOS development

• Support for Intel® Atom™ x7 Z8700 & x5 Z8500/X8400 processor series (Cherry Trail)
• Several bug fixes and stability improvements

Intel® Threading Building Blocks

What’s New:

• Added a C++11 variadic constructor for enumerable_thread_specific.
• The arguments from this constructor are used to construct thread-local values.
• Improved exception safety for enumerable_thread_specific.
• Added documentation for tbb::flow::tagged_msg class and tbb::flow::output_port function.
• Fixed build errors for systems that do not support dynamic linking.
• C++11 move aware insert and emplace methods have been added to concurrent unordered containers

Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives

What’s New:

• New APIs for external threading and APIs for external memory allocation
• Special functions and optimizations for the latest Intel® Atom x3, x5, x7 Processor series

Intel® Math Kernel Library

What’s New:

• New version of MKL Reference Manual highly tailored for each MKL function domain
• Many improvements to smaller sized matrix multiplication on all platforms

Details

Intel® System Studio 2016 Beta targets development for Android*, Chrome OS*, FreeBSD*, Windows*, Embedded Linux*, Yocto Project*, Tizen* IVI, and Wind River Linux* deployment targets from Linux* or Windows* host. The Beta package is a collection of many different components providing a complete embedded/mobile developer workflow. At the time of download, you can select to install individual products or the full suite.

The first release of the beta will be available last week of April 2015.

The second release of the beta will be available early June 2015.

Beta Duration and Schedule

The beta program officially ends August 26^th, 2015. The beta license will expire August 31^st, 2015. At the conclusion of the beta program, you will be asked to complete a survey regarding your experience with the beta software. Note that once you register for the beta, you will be notified automatically when updates are made available.

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.

How to enroll in the Beta program

Please go to the registration link to enroll.

Information collected during registration 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.

Beta Webinars

Please stay tuned for announcements of upcoming webinars during the Intel® System Studio Beta program.

We look forward to additionally offering in-depth virtual training sessions on demand to beta program participants. Please contact us at IntelSystemStudio@intel.com for details.

Special Features and Known Issues

This section contains information on known issues (plus associated fixes) and special features of Intel® System Studio 2016 Beta. Check back often for updates.

For a full list of known issues of individual Intel® System Studio components, please refer to the individual component release notes.

Please see Chapter 7 of the following release notes for Known Issues at time of Beta Launch. More will be listed on this page as the beta progresses.

Linux Target

https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/0a/d5/all-release-install.pdf

Windows Target

https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/01/b7/w-all-release-install.pdf

Next Steps

Review the Intel® System Studio 2016 Beta What’s New or check out the Release Notes.

Register for the beta program and install Intel® System Studio 2016 Beta

Try it out and share your experience with us!

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