Supported Host Platforms

One of the following Linux distributions (this is the list of distributions supported by all components; other distributions may or may not work and are not recommended - please refer to Technical Support if you have questions).

In most cases Intel® System Studio 2016 will install and work on a standard Linux* OS distribution based on current Linux* kernel versions without problems, even if they are not listed below. You will however receive a warning during installation for Linux* distributions that are not listed

• Red Hat Enterprise* Linux* 6, 7
• Ubuntu* 10.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 15.04 LTS
• Fedora* 20
• Wind River* Linux* 5, 6
• openSUSE* 12.1
• SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server*  11 SP2, 12

Additionally Intel® System Studio 2016 supports

• Microsoft Windows 7, 8.x, 10

Individual Intel® System Studio 2016 components may support additional distributions. See the individual component’s release notes after you unpacked and ran the installer for the tool suite distribution

> tar -zxvf  system_studio_2016.1.xxx.tgz  

for details.

Sudo or Root Access RightRequirements

• Integration of the Intel® C++ Compiler into a Yocto Project* Application Development Toolkit installed to /opt/poky/ requires the launch of the tool suite installation script install.sh as root or sudo user.
• Installation of the hardware drivers for the Intel® ITP-XDP3 probe to be used with the Intel® System Debugger requires the launch of the tool suite installation script install.sh as root or sudo user.

Host Prerequisites and Resource Requirements

Host Space Requirements by Component

Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) Details

Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) for IA-32 Hardware Requirements:

• 1800MB of free hard disk space, plus an additional 400MB during installation for download and temporary files.

Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) for Intel® 64 Hardware Requirements:

• 1900MB of free hard disk space, plus an additional 700MB during installation for download and temporary files.

Intel® C++ Compiler

Cross-build for Wind River Linux* target currently requires an existing Wind River* Linux 4.x, 5.x, 6.x or 7.x installation that the compiler can integrate into.

Target Software Requirements

• Yocto Project* 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 based environment
• CE Linux* PR35  based environment
• Tizen* IVI 3.x
• Wind River* Linux* 4, 5, 6, 7 based environment
• Android* 4.1.x through 5.1

Note:

The level of target OS support by a specific Intel® System Studio component may vary.

Target Prerequisites and Resource Requirements

Target Space Requirement by Component

Intel® VTune™ Amplifier target OS kernel configuration

For Intel® VTune™ Amplifier performance analysis and Intel® Energy Profiler there are minimum kernel configuration requirements. The settings below are required for different analysis features.

• For event-based sampling  (EBS) sep3_x.ko and pax.ko require the following settings:
  CONFIG_PROFILING=y
  CONFIG_OPROFILE=m   (or CONFIG_OPROFILE=y)
  CONFIG_HAVE_OPROFILE=y 

• For EBS with callstack information  vtsspp.ko  additionally needs the following settings:  CONFIG_MODULES=y
  CONFIG_SMP=y
  CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
  CONFIG_KPROBES=y        
  CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y (optional but recommended)

• For power analysis, required by apwr3_x.ko
  CONFIG_MODULES=y
  CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
  CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y
  CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y
  CONFIG_COMPAT=y
  CONFIG_TIMER_STATS=y
  CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=m (or CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=y)
  CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=y

Intel® VTune™ Amplifier Feature vs. Resource Matrix

Hardware Requirements

• IA32 or Intel® 64 architecture based host computer
• Development platform based on the Intel® Atom™ processor Z5xx, N4xx, N5xx, D5xx, E6xx, N2xxx, D2xxx, E3xxx, Z2xxx, Z3xxx, C2xxx, or Intel® Atom™ processor CE4xxx, CE53xx and the Intel® Puma™ 6 Media Gateway
• Intel® Edison development platform
• Alternatively development platform based on 2^nd , 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th or 6^th generation Intel® Core™ processor.
• Xeon® processors based on 2^nd, 3^rd 4^th or 5^th generation Intel® Core™ architecture.