Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit

Accelerated Computing without the Economic and Technical burdens of Proprietary Programming Models

Accelerate data-centric workloads by developing high-performance applications that scale across a variety of architectures (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs) using a single programming model. With oneAPI’s open standards-based path to accelerated computing and the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit, get all you need.

A cross-architecture language Data Parallel C++ along with C++ and Python.
Best-in-class compilers and Performance libraries.
Advanced analyzers and debuggers with Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit .
A CUDA code migration tool.

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What is Intel oneAPI?

Break away from proprietary single-architecture languages and deliver parallel programming productivity with uncompromised performance for Intel® CPUs and accelerators. Take advantage of Priority Support for fast development with direct access to Intel engineers for technical questions.

What is included with the intel oneAPI Base Toolkit?

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Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler
A standards-based, CPU, GPU and FPGA compiler supporting Data Parallel C++, C++, C, SYCL and OpenMP. that leverages well-proven LLVM compiler technology and Intel’s history of compiler leadership for performance. Experience seamless compatibility with popular compilers, development environments, and operating systems.
Intel® oneAPI DPC++ Library
Speed up data parallel workloads with these key productivity algorithms and functions.
Intel® oneAPI Threading Building Blocks
Simplify parallelism with this advanced threading and memory-management template library.
Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library
Accelerate math processing routines, including matrix algebra, fast Fourier transforms (FFT), and vector math.
Intel® oneAPI Data Analytics Library
Boost machine learning and data analytics performance.
Intel® oneAPI Video Processing Library
Deliver fast, high-quality, real-time video decoding, encoding, transcoding, and processing.
Intel® VTune Profiler
Performance analysis tool for serial and multithreaded applications. Intel VTune Profiler optimizes application performance, system performance, and system configuration for HPC, cloud, IoT, media, storage, and more.
Intel® Advisor
Design code for efficient vectorization, threading and offloading to accelerators.
Intel® Distribution for Python
Achieve fast math-intensive workload performance without code changes for data science and machine learning problems.
Intel® DPC++ Compatibility Tool
Migrate legacy CUDA code to a multi-platform program in DPC++ code with this assistant.
Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives
The speed performance of imaging, signal processing, data compression, cryptography, and more.

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New features in Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit

Intel oneAPI developer toolkits 2023

Optimised, standards-based support for powerful new architectures

The latest oneAPI and AI 2023 tools continue to empower developers with multiarchitecture performance and productivity, delivering optimised support for Intel’s upcoming portfolio of CPU and GPU architectures and advanced capabilities:

4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (formerly codenamed Sapphire Rapids) with Intel
Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel AMX), Quick Assist Technology (QAT), Intel AVX-512, bfloat16, and more
Intel Xeon Processor Max Series high-bandwidth memory
Intel Data Center GPUs, including Flex Series with hardware AV1 encode and Max Series (formerly codenamed Ponte Vecchio) with datatype flexibility, Intel Xe Matrix Extensions (Intel XMX), vector engine, XE-Link, and other features
Existing Intel CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs

The tools deliver performance and productivity enhancements and also add support for new Codeplay plug-ins for NVIDIA and AMD that make it easier than ever for developers to write SYCL code for non-Intel GPU architectures. These standards-based tools deliver choice in hardware and ease in developing high-performance applications that run on multiarchitecture systems.

What’s new in the 2023 oneAPI and AI tools?

Compilers & SYCL support

Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler improves CPU and GPU offload performance and broadens SYCL language support for improved code portability and productivity.
Intel oneAPI DPC++ Library (oneDPL) expands support of the C++ standard library in SYCL kernels with additional heap and sorting algorithms and adds the ability to use OpenMP for thread-level parallelism.
Intel DPC++ Compatibility Tool (based on the open-source SYCLomatic project) improves the migration of CUDA library APIs, including those for runtime and drivers, cuBLAS, and cuDNN.
Intel Fortran Compiler implements coarrays, eliminating the need for external APIs such as MPI or OpenMP, expands OpenMP 5.x offloading features, adds DO CONCURRENT GPU offload, and improves optimisations for source-level debugging.

Performance libraries in Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit

Intel oneAPI Math Kernel Library increases CUDA library function API compatibility coverage for BLAS and FFT; for Sapphire Rapids, leverages Intel XMX to optimize matrix multiply computations for TF32, FP16, BF16, and INT8 data types; and provides interfaces for SYCL and C/Fortran OpenMP offload programming.
Intel oneAPI Threading Building Blocks improve support and use of the latest C++ standard for parallel sort, offers an improved synchronization mechanism to reduce contention when multiple task arena calls are used concurrently, and add support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 and Windows Server 2022.
Intel oneAPI Video Processing Library supports the industry’s only hardware AV1 codec in the Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series and Intel Arc(tm) processors; expands OS support for RHEL9, CentOS, Stream 9, SLES15Sp4, and Rocky 9 Linux; and adds parallel encoding feature to sample multi transcode.

Analysis & Debug

Intel VTune Profiler enables the ability to identify MPI imbalance issues via its Application Performance Snapshot feature; delivers visibility into Xe Link cross-card traffic for utilisation, bandwidth consumption, and other issues; and adds support for 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids), Max Series (Ponte Vecchio), and 13th Gen Intel Core processors.
Intel Advisor adds automated roofline analysis for Intel Data Center GPU MAX Series to identify and prioritize memory, cache, or compute bottlenecks and understand their causes and delivers actionable recommendations for optimising data-transfer reuse costs of CPU-to-GPU offloading.

AI and Analytics in Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit

Intel AI Analytics Toolkit can now be run natively on Windows with full parity to Linux except for distributed training (GPU support is coming in Q1 2023).
Intel oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library further supports the delivery of superior CNN performance by enabling advanced features in 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors including Intel AMX, AVX-512, VNNI, and bfloat16.
Intel Distribution of Modin integrates with new heterogeneous data kernels (HDK) solution in the back end, enabling AI solution scale from low-compute resources to large- or distributed-computed resources.
Beta additions for Intel Distribution for Python include the compute-follows-data model extension to GPU, data exchange between libraries and frameworks, and data-parallel extensions for NumPy and Numba packages.

Rendering & Visual Computing

Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit includes the Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler runtime library for fast SIMD performance on CPUs.
Intel Open Volume Kernel Library increases memory-layout efficiency for VDB volumes and adds an AVX-512 8-wide CPU device mode for increased workload performance.
Intel OSPRay and Intel OSPRay Studio add features for multi-segment deformation motion blur for mesh geometry, primitive, and objects; face-varying attributes for mesh and subdivision geometry; new light capabilities such as photometric light types; and instance ID buffers to create segmentation images for AI training.

Why should you use oneAPI?

With 48% of developers targeting heterogeneous systems that use more than one kind of processor*, more efficient multiarchitecture programming is required to address the increasing scope and scale of real-world workloads.

Using oneAPI’s open, unified programming model with Intel’s standards-based multiarchitecture tools provides freedom of choice in hardware, performance, productivity, and code portability for CPUs and accelerators. Code written for proprietary programming models, like CUDA, lacks portability to other hardware, creating a siloed development practice that locks organisations into a closed ecosystem.

*Evans Data Global Development Survey Report 22.1, June 2022

Buy the Intel oneAPI 2023 Toolkits with Priority Support

Alfasoft is an Intel Software Elite Reseller. We can support you with Intel oneAPI licensing advice and discounts. Purchase the Intel oneAPI 2023 Toolkits with Priority Support to gain access to private, dedicated Intel engineer support, access to an earlier version, plus many other benefits.

Please get in touch with Alfasoft via email or call us if you have any queries or need a quote, and we will reach out to you.

System

System requirements in Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit

Processors

Intel® Xeon® processors
Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
Intel® Core™ processors

GPUs

Intel® Processor Graphics Gen9 and above
Xe architecture

Languages

Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) and SYCL (Note Must have Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit installed)
C and C++

Operating systems in Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit

Windows
Linux
macOS (Not all Intel oneAPI HPC Toolkit components are available for macOS. The following components are included: Intel® C++ Compiler Classic and Intel® Fortran Compiler Classic.)

Development environments

Compatible with compilers from Microsoft, GCC, Intel, and others that follow established language standards
Windows: Microsoft Visual Studio
Linux: Eclipse*

Open Fabrics Interfaces (OFI) framework implementation supporting the following

InfiniBand*
iWARP, RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
Amazon Web Services Elastic Fabric Adapter (AWS EFA)
Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA)
Ethernet, IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB), IP over Intel OPA

Licensing

License Options

Single-Node vs Multi-Node

Single-Node: supported for use on laptop, notebook, desktop, PC, or workstation
Multi-Node: supported for use on laptops, notebooks, desktops, PC, workstations and distributed memory systems ie HPC clusters
- The applications the developer is writing will determine which option they should purchase

License Types

Named user

10 Workgroup (former 2-seat Concurrent). Support for up to 10 developers
25 Workgroup (former 5-seat Concurrent). Support for up to 250 developers
50 Workgroup. Support for up to 50 developers

With oneAPI Toolkit, the need for a license server has been removed. Users must be compliant with Intel’s EULA and purchase the number of seats to match the number of users who need to use the software concurrently.

Academic
Degree-granting institutions only; colleges and universities that teach students in higher education towards earning a degree
Commercial
All other users, including government and non-profit institutions that are not degree-granting
Languages
No language selection. Intel oneAPI Base & HPC Toolkit includes both Fortran, C++, Data Parallel C++ and Python compilers in the same SKU.
Operating Systems
All supported OS’s will be included in the same SKU – Windows, Linux, macOS. No OS selection.

Network licenses changes with Intel oneAPI Toolkit

Network licenses (concurrent) are still available as 2 and 5 concurrent user licenses, but these are named differently with oneAPI:

10 Workgroup means up to 10 developers can get support. This license type was previously called 2 Concurrent.
25 Workgroup means up to 25 developers can get support. This license type was previously called 5 Concurrent.
50 Workgroup means up to 50 developers can get support.

I.e. for oneAPI, a maximum number of developers is set for the network licenses, who can then be registered in the IRC and are entitled to request Intel technical support in the confidential Intel Online Service Center. FlexLM is no longer included for the network licenses (as was the case with IPSXE). Licensing and usage restrictions now result from the legal basis (i.e. the license agreement – EULA).

PERFORMANCE ANALYZERS & LIBRARIES

Analyzers (ie VTune Profiler and MPI) and libraries will no longer be available as standalone products.

New licenses will only be available through the purchase of oneAPI Base or oneAPI Base & HPC Toolkit Single Node or Multi-Node, depending on the product.
Upgrade Promotions to oneAPI are available for existing users with active support

EXISTING USERS – WHAT’S NEXT IN INTEL ONEAPI BASE TOOLKIT?

All registered users of Intel Parallel Studio and Intel System Studio (ISPXE or ISS) with active support will receive an email from Intel with the option to upgrade to the oneAPI product corresponding to their existing product free of charge.

If the user chooses the free upgrade option, their existing legacy product will be retired, and a new serial number will be issued to the same support end date as their legacy product.
Once upgraded to oneAPI, users will be eligible for all version updates & upgrades that Intel releases for oneAPI while their support agreement is active.
For continued support, eligible users can purchase oneAPI SSR SKUs
If the user does not choose to upgrade to oneAPI, the user can continue using their existing product, but they will not receive any new version updates (unless there are security bug fixes)
They will only be able to stay on the version they currently own.
Users with active support will continue to have the free upgrade link available to them while support for their license remains active. Once support expires, the free upgrade option will go away.
Users who have support in the post-expiry renewal range can purchase a post-expiry SSR SKU for their existing product to get their support active. Then, they will receive a link to upgrade to oneAPI for free as part of their service & support agreement.

ONEAPI UPGRADE PROMOTION: AVAILABLE TO IPSXE USERS WITH ACTIVE SUPPORT AT A DISCOUNTED PRICE FOR A LIMITED TIME

The Upgrade Promo SKU might be a more cost-effective option for existing Composer Edition users to purchase instead of selecting the free oneAPI Upgrade offer, depending on the type of license they own.
Users need to be aware that the Upgrade Promotions are ONLY eligible for purchase BEFORE they click the “Upgrade” to oneAPI if they are currently under active support.
Once a user upgrades for free, the upgrade promotion goes away.
New Update: IPSXE users who have support which has expired less than 6 months can also purchase an oneAPI Upgrade Promotion SKU.
With this purchase, a new serial number will be issued with 12 months of support extended from their current support expiration date.

ONEAPI UPGRADE in Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit

Upgrade to another suite with additional capabilities, i.e. from oneAPI Base Toolkit to oneAPI Base & HPC Toolkit
Upgrade from oneAPI Single-Node to Multi-Node
With this purchase, a new serial number will be issued with 12 months of support extended from their current support expiration date.

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Comparison

Intel oneAPI Toolkits Comparison

Support

Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit Support

Alfasoft offer paid licenses of Intel oneAPI software with support.

• 1 & 3-year support options will be available for all toolkits
• Additional years of support can be added with the corresponding pre-expiry renewal SKU

Support with oneAPI Toolkit includes

Submit questions, problems and other technical support questions
Monitor issues you’ve submitted previously
Direct and private interaction with Intel’s support engineers, including the ability to submit confidential support requests
Accelerated response time for technical questions and other product needs
Free download access to all new product updates and continued access to older versions of the product
Priority assistance for escalated defects and feature requests
Access to a vast library of self-help documentation built from decades of experience with creating high-performance code
Access to Intel public community forums supported by community technical experts and monitored by Intel engineers

What’s included with Intel Priority Support? (video)

Without paid support, support for free tools is only available through public community forums and only for the latest version update of the current year.

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