Intel oneAPI 2022.1 now available

Key 2022.1 highlights

Compilers

Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler adds SYCL 2020 features to improve programming productivity plus OpenMP 5.0 & 5.1 features to improve multi-platform, shared-memory programming.

Intel Fortran Compiler is production-ready for CPUs and GPUs and supports OpenMP 5.2 compute offload to GPUs, Fortran 2003, and the most common Fortran 2008 features.

Analysis tools

Intel VTune™ Profiler Flame Graph feature allows visualisation of performance hotspots.

New GPU-to-GPU and CPU-to-GPU offload modelling enable performance projections before code changes are made.

High-Performance Computing

Intel MPI Library includes new performance optimisations for Google Cloud Platform fabric (OFI/tcp).

Development and distribution platforms have expanded support, including VSCode integration, WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux), and Spack for HPC tools package management.

Rendering and ray tracing

Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit adds support for the latest ray tracing techniques, including BVH traversal and intersection, FP16 data format support, Wilkie Sun Sky light sources, rolling shutter, quaternion motion blur, and VDB structure support.

Hardware platforms

Cross-architecture development is supported for Python (via Data Parallel Python for CPUs and GPUs) and Fortran in addition to C++.

All toolkits are ready for the latest hardware, including Alder Lake, pre-release software development for Sapphire Rapids, and upcoming client and data centre GPUs.