Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler 2021 System Requirements

Introduction

Learn more about the hardware, operating system, and software prerequisites for this compiler and library.

Hardware Requirements

CPU Processor Requirements

Systems based on Intel® 64 architectures below are supported both as host and target platforms.

• Intel® Core™ processor family or higher
• Intel® Xeon® processor family
• Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family

Requirements for Accelerators

• GEN9 (and higher) GPUs
• FPGA Cards and FPGA Custom Platforms

​Memory Requirements

• 16 GB is for CPU and GPU development
• FPGA development:
  • 48 GB for Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA
  • 64 GB for Intel® FPGA PAC D5005 (recommended)

NOTE: Intel recommends that your system be configured to provide virtual memory equal to the recommended physical RAM necessary to process your design.

Software Requirements

Linux*

Operating Systems

NOTE:
- For hardware compiles on FPGA, you must use Intel® FPGA Add-On for oneAPI Base Toolkit. Refer to Intel® FPGA Add-On for oneAPI Base Toolkit System Requirements for more information.
- FPGAs do not officially support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.4 OS. However, if you want to compile your FPGA designs on RHEL 7.4 OS, refer to Compiling Intel® oneAPI DPC++ FPGA Designs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)* 7.4 OS.
- Programs using the AC datatypes feature cannot run in the emulation flow on RHEL 7 systems. AC datatypes feature provides support for variable-precision integers and variable-precision floating-point data types. For more information, see Variable-Precision Integer and Floating-Point Support section in the Intel® oneAPI DPC++ FPGA Optimization Guide.
- The Ubuntu Server 18.04 with Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel is not supported and there is no plan to support it for this release.

OS Deprecation Notice

Developer Tools

• GNU* Compiler Collection (GCC*): 7 or higher
• Supported minimum versions of distributed libraries that the compilers are built on: GCC - 7.3.0, BINUTILS- 2.29, GLIBC-2.26
• Eclipse* developers: Eclipse 4.16 and 4.17
• GPU Development:
  • Latest Intel® GPU drivers from General Purpose GPU Drivers for Linux* Operating Systems.
• FPGA Development:
  • Intel® FPGA Add-On for oneAPI Base Toolkit (to support hardware compile flow).
  • GCC 7.4.0 (the default version for Ubuntu 18.04)
• Development with Intel® oneAPI DPC++ Library:
  • Use of the range-based API requires C++17 and the C++ standard libraries that are included with GCC 8.1 (or higher) or Clang 7 (or higher).
• A known issue is causing linker errors while using Link Time Optimization(LTO) on RHEL and SUSE. To resolve the issue make sure the following minimum versions of binutils are installed:
  • SUSE15.2: binutils 2.35
  • RHEL 8: binutils 2.30-82.el8
• OpenMP development:
  • libffi.so.6(default version on Ubuntu 18.04). Users with newer OS versions will need to specifically install libffi.so.6.

Summary of Intel Integrated Graphics (GPU) Development

• Supported Linux kernel: 4.11 or higher deployment is required
• Supported Linux OS:
  • for GEN9: Ubuntu LTS 18.04.3, RHEL 8.1, SUSE 15.x
• GNU* GCC*: 7 or higher
• Supported minimum versions of distributed libraries that the compilers are built on: GCC - 7.3.0, BINUTILS- 2.29, GLIBC-2.26
• Latest Intel® GPU drivers
• User should be on the "video" group to have access to hardware. Use the command below to add:
  $ usermod -a -G video $USER

Windows*

Operating Systems

NOTE: For hardware compiles on FPGA, you must use Intel® FPGA Add-On for oneAPI Base Toolkit. Refer to Intel® FPGA Add-On for oneAPI Base Toolkit System Requirements for more information.

Developer Tools

• GPU development: Latest driver from Intel® Graphics Windows 10 DCH Drivers
• To use the Microsoft Visual Studio* development environment or command-line tools to build IA-32 or Intel® 64 architecture applications:
  • Microsoft Visual Studio* 2017 Professional Edition (or higher edition) or Microsoft Visual Studio* Community 2017 with 'Desktop development with C++' component installed
  • Microsoft Visual Studio* 2019 Community, Enterprise and Professional Editions with 'Desktop development with C++' component installed
  • For addtional details see the article, Intel Compilers Compatibility with Microsoft Visual Studio and Xcode.

Other Developer Tools

Visual Studio Code* (VS Code) Extensions for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits

The VS Code extensions for oneAPI Toolkits provide assistance to developers who are creating, debugging and profiling oneAPI applications. The Using Visual Studio Code with Intel® oneAPI Toolkits User Guide provides additional detail.

The following VS Code extensions are available in the VS Code marketplace:

• Sample Browser for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
• Environment Configurator for Intel ® oneAPI Toolkits
• Analysis Configurator for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
• GDB GPU Support for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
• DevCloud Connector for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits

See also:

• Get Started with Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit for Linux
• Get Started with Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit for Windows
• Get Started with Intel® oneAPI Base and HPC Toolkit for MacOS*

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