Intel is announcing the availability of the OneAPI 2022 Toolkit. The new version of the toolkit extends heterogeneous architecture capabilities to provide developers with more utilities and schema options for accelerated computation. This time a full suite of advanced tools is introduced, covering compilers, libraries, pre-optimized frameworks, analyzers/debuggers, and more. Intel says oneAPI 2022 is ready for multi-language support and heterogeneous architecture performance acceleration to further improve developer productivity on Intel platforms.
oneAPI is a cross-architecture programming tool designed to simplify programming across GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, and AI accelerators that can be used with Intel's own devices, or chips from other vendors, to optimize workloads. OneAPI is a cross-platform programming interface that allows customers to optimize and efficiently accelerate processing programs for a specific architecture, and supports Intel-specific instructions such as AVX-512 and DL Boost. Intel released the oneAPI toolkit late last year.
The oneAPI 2022 toolkit offers a number of new features, including a unified compiler for C++, SYCL, and Fortran, python-enabled parallel programming of CPU and GPU data, accelerator performance modeling and tuning, and performance acceleration for AI and ray-traced visualization workloads. The optimized oneAPI 2022 toolkit supports the advanced features of the latest and upcoming new hardware, including Intel's 12th Gen Core series processors with AVX-VNNI, next-generation Sapphire Rapids Xeon Scalable processors, and upcoming client and data center GPUs.
Currently oneAPI is free to download or use in Intel DevCloud.
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