Intel® MPI Library System Requirements

Introduction

This document provides details about hardware, operating system, and software prerequisites for the Intel® MPI Library.

Hardware Requirements

• Systems based on the Intel® 64 architecture, in particular:
  • Intel® Core™ processor family or higher
  • Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family is recommended
• 1 GB of RAM per core (2 GB recommended)
• 1 GB of free hard disk space
• Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor (formerly Knights Landing) based on Intel® Many Integrated Core Architecture

Supported Accelerators 

Integrated GEN9 or higher GPUs including latest Intel® Iris® Xe MAX graphics.

Drivers and Libraries

oneAPI Level-Zero API 1.0.

Software Requirements

Linux* OS

• Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 7, 8
• Fedora* 31
• CentOS* 7, 8
• SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server* 12, 15
• Ubuntu* LTS 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
• Debian* 9, 10
• Amazon Linux 2

Compilers

• GNU*: C, C++, Fortran 77 3.3 or newer, Fortran 95 4.4.0 or newer
• Intel® C++/Fortran Compiler 17.0 or newer

Debuggers

• Rogue Wave* Software TotalView* 6.8 or newer
• Allinea* DDT* 1.9.2 or newer
• GNU* Debuggers 7.4 or newer

Batch Systems

• Platform* LSF* 6.1 or newer
• Altair* PBS Pro* 7.1 or newer
• Torque* 1.2.0 or newer
• Parallelnavi* NQS* V2.0L10 or newer
• NetBatch* v6.x or newer
• SLURM* 1.2.21 or newer
• Univa* Grid Engine* 6.1 or newer
• IBM* LoadLeveler* 4.1.1.5 or newer
• Platform* Lava* 1.0

Fabric Software

• Intel® Omni-Path Software 10.5 or later: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/92003/Intel-Omni-Path-Host-Fabric-Interface-Products
• Open Fabric Interface (OFI): https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric or ${I_MPI_ROOT}/libfabric/src.tgz 
• Minimum: OFI 1.5.0 (OFI/verbs provider is unstable) 
• Recommended: the latest OFI "main" branch

Build and install instructions: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/a-bkm-for-working-with-libfabric-on-a-cluster-system-when-using-intel-mpi-library

Supported Languages

• For GNU* compilers: C, C++, Fortran 77, Fortran 95
• For Intel® compilers: C, C++, Fortran 77, Fortran 90, Fortran 95, Fortran 2008

Clustered File Systems

• IBM Spectrum Scale* (GPFS*)
• LustreFS*
• PanFS*
• NFS* v3 or newer

Windows* OS

• Microsoft* Windows* 7 (deprecated), 10
• Microsoft* Windows* Server 2012 (deprecated), 2012 R2 (deprecated), 2016, 2019

(SDK only) Compilers

• Intel® C++/Fortran Compiler 17.0 or newer
• Microsoft* Visual Studio* Compilers 2013 (deprecated), 2015 (deprecated), 2017 (deprecated), 2020

Batch systems

• Microsoft* Job Scheduler
• Altair* PBS Pro* 9.2 or newer

Fabric software

• Intel® Omni-Path Software 10.5 or later: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/92003/Intel-Omni-Path-Host-Fabric-Interface-Products
• Open Fabric Interface (OFI): https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric or ${I_MPI_ROOT}/libfabric/src.tgz
• Minimum: OFI 1.5.0 (OFI/verbs provider is unstable)
• Recommended: the latest OFI "main" branch

Build and install instructions: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/a-bkm-for-working-with-libfabric-on-a-cluster-system-when-using-intel-mpi-library

Supported languages

• For GNU* compilers: C, C++, Fortran 77, Fortran 95
• For Intel® compilers: C, C++, Fortran 77, Fortran 90, Fortran 95

Notices and disclaimers

Operation Systems Deprication Notice

These operating systems are deprecated in Intel oneAPI 2022.1 release, and will be removed in a future release:

• Windows Server 2016*
• Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 7
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* 15 SP2
• Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS
• CentOS* 7
• Fedora 34
• Fedora 35
• Clear Linux*
• Yocto
• macOS* 11

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