Intel® Manycore Platform Software Stack (Intel® MPSS)

Published: 07/14/2014  

Last Updated: 09/19/2019

By Loc Q Nguyen

 

Summary of (latest) changes

Here we will list the most recent changes made to the Intel® MPSS so that if you've subscribed to get notifications on updates, you'll be able to quickly determine whether this applies to you.

  • September 19, 2019 Intel® MPSS 3.8.6 released for Linux and Windows
  • February 16, 2019 Intel® MPSS 3.8.5 released for Linux and Windows
  • March 29, 2018 Intel® MPSS 3.8.4 released for Linux and Windows
  • October 2, 2017 Intel® MPSS 3.8.3 released for Linux and Windows
  • April 25, 2017 Intel® MPSS 3.8.2 released for Linux and Windows
  • January 17, 2017 Intel® MPSS 3.8.1 released for Linux and Windows
  • January 17, 2017 Intel® MPSS 3.4.10 released for Linux and Windows
  • December 3, 2016 Intel® MPSS 3.4.9 released for Linux and Windows
  • December 2, 2016 Intel® MPSS 3.8 released for Linux and Windows
  • August 15, 2016 Intel® MPSS 3.7.2 released for Linux and Windows
  • July 25, 2016 Intel® MPSS 3.4.8 released for Linux and Windows
  • June 1, 2016 Intel® MPSS 3.7.1 released for Linux and Windows
  • April 6, 2016 Intel® MPSS 3.7 released for Linux and Windows
  • March 28, 2016 Intel® MPSS 3.4.7 released for Linux and Windows
  • January 13, 2016 Intel® MPSS 3.4.6 released for Linux and Windows
  • December 18, 2015 Intel® MPSS 3.6.1 released for Linux and Windows
  • October 2, 2015 Intel® MPSS 3.6 released for Linux and Windows
  • August 6, 2015 Intel® MPSS 3.5.2 released for Linux and Windows
  • July 7, 2015 Intel® MPSS 3.4.5 released for Linux and Windows
  • June 2, 2015 Intel® MPSS 3.5.1, 3.4.4, and 3.3.5 released for Linux
  • April 6, 2015 Intel® MPSS 3.5 released for Linux and Windows
  • March 13, 2015 Intel® MPSS 3.3.4 released for Linux and Windows
  • February 20, 2015: Intel® MPSS 3.4.3 released for Linux and Windows
  • December 22, 2014: Intel® MPSS 3.3.3 released for Linux and Windows
  • December 3, 2014: Intel® MPSS 3.4.2 released for Linux and Windows
  • October 22, 2014: Intel® MPSS 3.4.1 released for Linux and Windows
  • October 15, 2014: Intel® MPSS 3.3.2 released for Windows
  • October 10, 2014: Intel® MPSS 3.3.2 released for Linux
  • September 24, 2014:  Intel® MPSS 3.4 released for Linux and Windows
  • September 15, 2014:  Intel® MPSS 3.3.1 released for Linux and Windows
  • August 26, 2014: Intel® MPSS 3.1.6 and 3.2.4 released for Linux and Windows
  • July 14, 2014: Intel® MPSS 3.3 released for Linux and Windows
  • May 24, 2014: Intel® MPSS 3.2.3 released for Linux and Windows
  • April 10, 2014: Intel® MPSS 3.2.1 released for Linux and Windows
  • March 17, 2014: Intel® MPSS 3.2 released for Linux and Windows
  • March 13, 2014: Intel® MPSS 2.1 patch 6720-23 released for Linux
  • February 28, 2014: Intel® MPSS 3.1.4-1 released for Linux and Windows
  • December 20 2013:  Intel® MPSS 3.1.2 released for Linux and Windows.  Note the addition of RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.5 support.
  • December 5 2013:  Intel® MPSS 3.1.1 released for Linux and Windows
  • November 7 2013:  Published source code for unmodified GPL components for Linux Intel® MPSS 3.1 release
  • October 31 2013:  Published Intel® MPSS Performance Guide (see Additional Documentation section)
  • October 24 2013:  Posted First MPSS 3.1 release for Linux
  • October 22 2013:  Posted MPSS hotfix 2.1.6720-23
  • October 7 2013: Added Chinese and Japanese translations of the readme file for Microsoft* Windows Yocto (3.1) release
  • September 29 2013: Added Microsoft* Windows Yocto (3.1) release

About the Intel® Manycore Platform Software Stack

The "Intel® Manycore Platform Software Stack." is necessary to run the Intel® Xeon Phi Coprocessor. Users often call this stack "MPSS" for short. It is dependent on Linux kernels 2.6.34 or later , and it has been tested to work with specific versions of 64-bit Operating Systems:

  •  Red Hat Enterprise 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 and 6.5 (for MPSS 3.2 and earlier releases); versions 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6 and 7.0 (MPSS 3.3 and 3.4), versions 6.4, 6.5, 6.6 and 7.1 (MPSS 3.5), versions 6.7, version 7.2 (MPSS 3.6 and 3.7) and version 7.3 (MPSS 3.8)
  •  SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP1 and SP2 (MPSS 2.1),  SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP2 and SP3 (MPSS 3.3), SuSE 11 SP2 and SP3, SuSE 12 (MPSS 3.4), SuSE 11 SP3 and SuSE 12 (MPSS 3.5), SuSE 11 SP4, SuSE 12 SP1 (MPSS 3.6 and 3.7), SuSE 12 SP2 (MPSS 3.8) 
  •  Microsoft* Windows 7 Enterprise SP1, Windows 8/8.1 Enterprise, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 

     

The readme files (referenced in the Download section) have more information on how to build and install the stack.

The open source updates we have made are in support of the instruction set, the ABI, initializing and controlling an SMP on-a-chip, and the glue software to support the coprocessor communication with the host system. The changes in the Linux kernel are primarily for three reasons:

  • Numerous little changes to support the unique combination of an Intel® Pentium® processor core that also supports 64-bits including the Intel® Initial Many Core Instructions (Intel® IMCI).
  • Power management, which is a feature not associated with the original Pentium processors. Power management is much more important when you have up to 61 cores on a single die
  • The Intel® Many Integrated Core (MIC) check architecture, also a feature not present in the original Pentium processor designs.

The Symmetric Communications InterFace (SCIF) is included in the RPM bundle. SCIF provides a mechanism for inter-node communications within a single platform. A node, for SCIF purposes, is defined as either a Intel® Xeon Phi Coprocessor or the Intel® Xeon® processor. In particular, SCIF abstracts the details of communicating over the PCI Express bus. The SCIF APIs are callable from both user space (uSCIF) and kernel-space (kSCIF).

The MPSS is downloadable from the sources below. Note that these packages include documentation and APIs (e.g. SCIF API).

Please note: the Linux* MPSS download files marked '.gz' should end in '.gz' when downloaded; most browsers leave the extension alone, but Windows Explorer may rename the files. If this affects you, we recommend renaming the file to the proper extension after downloading.

If it is necessary for you to access slightly older releases of the MPSS, please visit the archive at: HPC Development

Getting notified of future updates

Do you want to receive updates when we publish a new MPSS stack?  Putting a comment at the bottom of this page will allow you to see future updates.

 

Release Support Schedule

 

The following table shows when releases were issued and when support for them from Intel will cease.   Items with a strikethrough are releases that are no longer supported.    For an overview of Intel's release structure and support length, please see this article

 
Intel(R) MPSS Release Release Date Support Ends
Linux Gold (build 2.1.4346-16; Flash: 375; SMC:1.6 October 2012 End of October 2013
Linux Gold Update 1 (Build 2.1.5889-14; Flash: 375-1; SMC: 1.7) December 2012 End of December 2013
Linux Gold Update 2 (Build 2.1.5889-14; Flash: 383-2; SMC: 1.11) March 2013 End of March 2014
Linux Gold Update 2 Hotfix 1 (Build 2.1.5889-16; Flash: 385-1; SMC: 1.13) March 2013 End of March 2014
Linux Gold Update 3 (Build: 2.1.6720-13; Flash:386-2; SMC:1.14) May 2013 End of May 2014
MPSS 3.1 (Flash: 386-3; SMC:1.15) October 2013 End of October 2014
MPSS 3.2 (Flash: 390-2; SMC:1.16) March 2014 End of March 2015
MPSS 3.3 (Flash 390-2; SMC: 1.16) July 2014 End of June 2015
MPSS 3.4 (Flash 390-2; SMC: 1.16) September 2014 End of September 2017
MPSS 3.5 (Flash 391-2; SMC: 1.17) April 2015 End of September 2015
MPSS 3.6 (Flash 391-2; SMC: 1.17) October 2015 End of March 2016
MPSS 3.7 (Flash 391-2; SMC: 1.17) April 2016 End of September 2016
MPSS 3.8 (Flash 391-2; SMC: 1.17) December 2016 End of January 2020

 

Downloads

There are currently 7 major releases available of the MPSS;  The 2.1 release is an evolution of the MPSS that Intel originally released in November of 2012. And, the most recent major release is 3.8.

We recommend new adopters to start by using the 3.8 release. We recommend existing users who are still using the 2.1 release stream to read this FAQ and migrate to the 3.8 release as soon as feasible for them, to inherit new features and bug fixes as they become available over time. Support for each Intel® MPSS release ends 6 months from the date it was posted except Long Term Support product (e.g., MPSS 3.4 and 3.8).

NOTE: There is an incompatibility between the Intel® MPSS version 3.5 for Windows host and previous update version of the Intel® Vtune™ Amplifier 2015. Starting with the Intel Vtune Amplifier 2015 Update 4, this issue is resolved. We recommend using the Intel Vtune Amplifier 2015 Update 4 if you install the Intel® MPSS version 3.5.x for Windows host.

Get the MPSS 2.1.* release for Linux*

Get the MPSS 3.3.* release for Linux* Get the MPSS 3.3.* release for Microsoft* Windows

Get the MPSS 3.4.* release for Linux* Get the MPSS 3.4.* release for Microsoft* Windows

Get the MPSS 3.5.* release for Linux* Get the MPSS 3.5.* release for Microsoft* Windows

Get the MPSS 3.6.* release for Linux* Get the MPSS 3.6.* release for Microsoft* Windows

Get the MPSS 3.7.* release for Linux* Get the MPSS 3.7.* release for Microsoft* Windows

Get the MPSS 3.8.* release for Linux* Get the MPSS 3.8.* release for Microsoft* Windows

MPSS 2.1 release for Linux*

MPSS version Downloads available Size MD5 Checksum
  RedHat 6.0 292MB 796a9b7b09be76811ddc96bd5de10788
  RedHat 6.1 293MB 83bcfd31cd6f882584684b2a2c25fb97
mpss_gold_update_3-2.1.6720-23   (released:   March 13 2014) RedHat 6.2 293MB 586ced0c807416dceeb97945fe5cba45
  RedHat 6.3 293MB 0d2af7ec352556f06381337ae507b69a
  RedHat 6.4 289MB b8c019f523be4a6775a495b9fe86f735
  SuSE SLES11 SP1 292MB aa7f9c14e34d4a58918c0a6c929e36c1
  SuSE SLES11 SP2 287MB c4a15e78664b2962489e7716c3fca1b6
  RedHat SOURCE 430MB 098a780d274b063dcff71a7b545947e1
  SuSE SLES11 SOURCE 430MB 707262110fe8373a5c2876991282cdd9
Documentation link Description Last Updated On Size
releaseNotes-linux.txt English - release notes Mar 2014 54KB
readme-en.txt English (includes installation instructions) Mar 2014 97KB
MPSS_Cluster_Setup_Guide.pdf Cluster Setup Guide April 2013 644KB
MPSS_Boot_Config_Guide.pdf Advanced Configuration Guide for MPSS June 2013 911KB
license.txt INTEL SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT for Intel® Manycore Platform Software Stack (Intel® MPSS)   30KB

 

 

 

MPSS 3.3.5 release for Linux

Note: Previous Intel® MPSS 3.X releases provided distribution-branded tarballs (for example: mpss-3.2-rhel-6.4.tar) for the stack, including the user-space rpms. Starting with this release a single distribution-agnostic tarball will be available, which will include kernel-space rpms that are precompiled for specific kernel versions. (As with previous releases, kernel source rpms will be available to support other kernel versions).  The new tarball is called “mpss-3.3-linux.tar”.   Key features of this specific release are described  here

MPSS version Downloads available Size (range) MD5 Checksum
mpss-3.3.5   (released: June 2  2015)

Linux (mpss-3.3.5-linux.tar) for RedHat 6.2, RedHat 6.3, RedHat 6.4, RedHat 6.5,RedHat 7.0, SuSE SLES11 SP2, SuSE SLES11 SP3
~400MB

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  Software for Coprocessor OS (k1om) (mpss-3.3.5-k1om.tar) ~700MB 1f8df5ac128d91f89d287311853816e8
  SOURCE (mpss-src-3.3.5.tar) ~250MB b99faf43ea0a3c1b929bf4c6e6a1f16d
  Download Cache (mpss-downloadcache-3.3.5.tar) ~1.1GB 01326fe0ef87a377a2e5e704bedff551

 

 

Documentation link Description Last Updated On Size (approx)
releaseNotes.txt English - Release Notes June 2015 ~40KB
readme.txt Readme (includes installation instructions) for Linux (English) June 2015 ~25KB
MPSS_Users_Guide.pdf Complete Users Guide for MPSS for Linux (English) June 2015 ~2MB
SCIF_UserGuide.pdf SCIF User guide June 2015 ~700KB
license.txt INTEL SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT for Intel® Manycore Platform Software Stack (Intel® MPSS) June 2015 ~30KB

 

 

MPSS 3.3.4 release for Microsoft* Windows
 

MPSS version Downloads available Size MD5 Checksum
 mpss-3.3.4-windows.zip (released:March 13, 2015) Microsoft* Windows ~300MB

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Software for Coprocessor OS (k1om)  (mpss-3.3.4-k1om.tar)   ~700MB

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Documentation link Description Last Updated On Size
releaseNotes-windows.txt English - release notes March 2015 ~20KB
readme-windows.pdf English (includes installation instructions) for Microsoft* Windows March 2015 ~660KB
MPSS_Users_Guide-windows.pdf User, Cluster and Advanced Configuration Guide for MPSS March 2015 ~2MB

 

 

MPSS 3.4.10 release for Linux

MPSS version Downloads available Size (range) MD5 Checksum
mpss-3.4.10   (released: January 17, 2017)

Linux (mpss-3.4.10-linux.tar) for RedHat 6.3, RedHat 6.4, RedHat 6.5, RedHat 6.6, RedHat 7.0, SuSE SLES11 SP2, SuSE SLES11 SP3, SuSE SLES12
~420MB		 a547da1ba25cacfc5fd6ab543c8e4547
 

Software for Coprocessor OS (k1om) (mpss-3.4.10-k1om.tar)

 ~690MB

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  SOURCE (mpss-src-3.4.10.tar) ~280MB

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  Download Cache (mpss-downloadcache-3.4.10.tar) ~1.1GB

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Documentation link Description Last Updated On Size (approx)
releaseNotes-linux.txt English - Release Notes January 2017 ~10KB
readme.txt Readme (includes installation instructions) for Linux (English) January 2017 ~20KB
MPSS_Users_Guide.pdf Complete Users Guide for MPSS for Linux (English) January 2017 ~3MB
SCIF_UserGuide.pdf SCIF User guide January 2017 ~700KB
license.txt INTEL SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT for Intel® Manycore Platform Software Stack (Intel® MPSS) January 2017 ~33KB

 

 

MPSS 3.4.10 release for Microsoft* Windows

MPSS version Downloads available Size MD5 Checksum
 mpss-3.4.10-windows.zip (released: January 17 2017) Microsoft* Windows ~320MB 0111c97237fb573357444910208fbfc1
Software for Coprocessor OS (k1om)  (mpss-3.4.10-k1om.tar)   ~690MB 4a94d5f3bf11e32dc7131480ba411d16

 

Documentation link Description Last Updated On Size
releaseNotes-windows.txt English - release notes January 2017 ~8KB
readme-windows.pdf English (includes installation instructions) for Microsoft* Windows January 2017 ~550KB
MPSS_Users_Guide-windows.pdf User, Cluster and Advanced Configuration Guide for MPSS January 2017 ~2MB

 

 

MPSS 3.5.2 release for Linux

MPSS version Downloads available Size (range) MD5 Checksum
mpss-3.5.2   (released: August 6, 2015)

Linux (mpss-3.5.2-linux.tar) for RedHat 6.4, RedHat 6.5, RedHat 6.6, RedHat 6.7, RedHat 7.0, RedHat 7.1, SuSE SLES11 SP3, SuSE SLES11 SP4, SuSE SLES12.
~350MB

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Software for Coprocessor OS (k1om) (mpss-3.5.2-k1om.tar)

 ~700MB f5845416a4236ac07e458c55abaf765e
  SOURCE (mpss-src-3.5.2.tar) ~270MB b5588e81a88dbc6a188333429941f9c3
  Download Cache (mpss-downloadcache-3.5.2.tar) ~1.3GB 273a7c03605ce63658280fd4e087b906

 

 

Documentation link Description Last Updated On Size (approx)
releasenotes-linux.txt English - Release Notes August 2015 ~55KB
readme.txt Readme (includes installation instructions) for Linux (English) August 2015 ~20KB
MPSS_Users_Guide.pdf Complete Users Guide for MPSS for Linux (English) August 2015 ~4MB
SCIF_UserGuide.pdf SCIF User guide August 2015 ~520KB
license.txt INTEL SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT for Intel® Manycore Platform Software Stack (Intel® MPSS) August 2015 ~30KB

 

 

MPSS 3.5.2 release for Microsoft* Windows

NOTE: There is an incompatibility between the Intel® MPSS version 3.5 for Windows host and previous update version of the Intel® Vtune™ Amplifier 2015. Starting with the Intel Vtune Amplifier 2015 Update 4, this issue is resolved. We recommend using the Intel Vtune Amplifier 2015 Update 4 if you install the Intel® MPSS version 3.5.x for Windows host.

MPSS version Downloads available Size MD5 Checksum
 mpss-3.5.2-windows.zip (release August 6, 2015)

Microsoft* Windows

There is an incompatibility of this MPSS version and previous update version of the Intel® Vtune™ Amplifier 2015 (see the above note).

 ~310MB

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Software for Coprocessor OS (k1om)  (mpss-3.5.2-k1om.tar)   ~700MB

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Documentation link Description Last Updated On Size
releaseNotes-windows.txt English - release notes August 2015 ~25KB
readme-windows.pdf English (includes installation instructions) for Microsoft* Windows August 2015 ~420KB
MPSS_Users_Guide-windows.pdf User, Cluster and Advanced Configuration Guide for MPSS August 2015 ~2MB

 

 

 

MPSS 3.6.1 release for Linux

MPSS version Downloads available Size (range) MD5 Checksum
mpss-3.6.1   (released: December 18, 2015)

Linux (mpss-3.6.1-linux.tar) for RedHat 6.5, RedHat 6.6, RedHat 6.7, RedHat 7.0, RedHat 7.1, RedHat 7.2, SuSE SLES11 SP3, SuSE SLES11 SP4, SuSE SLES12, SuSE SLES12 SP1.
~360MB

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Software for Coprocessor OS (k1om) (mpss-3.6.1-k1om.tar)

 ~680MB be220f946d1431e5b8b7bb36b3d89865
  SOURCE (mpss-src-3.6.1.tar) ~280MB 5f0b5074b2f12d406cf1c02ace7e508a
  Download Cache (mpss-downloadcache-3.6.1.tar) ~1.3GB c47e5fbcdc9915edda30779a977689bd

 

 

Documentation link Description Last Updated On Size (approx)
releasenotes-linux.txt English - Release Notes December 2015 ~18KB
readme.txt Readme (includes installation instructions) for Linux (English) December 2015 ~21KB
MPSS_Users_Guide.pdf Complete Users Guide for MPSS for Linux (English) December 2015 ~5MB
SCIF_UserGuide.pdf SCIF User guide December 2015 ~516KB
license.txt INTEL SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT for Intel® Manycore Platform Software Stack (Intel® MPSS) December 2015 ~33KB

 

 

 

MPSS 3.6.1 release for Microsoft* Windows

MPSS version Downloads available Size MD5 Checksum
 mpss-3.6.1-windows.zip (release December 18, 2015)

Microsoft* Windows

 

 ~310MB

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Software for Coprocessor OS (k1om)  (mpss-3.6.1-k1om.tar)   ~680MB be220f946d1431e5b8b7bb36b3d89865

 

Documentation link Description Last Updated On Size
releaseNotes-windows.txt English - release notes December 2015 ~9KB
readme-windows.pdf English (includes installation instructions) for Microsoft* Windows December 2015 ~483KB
MPSS_Users_Guide-windows.pdf User, Cluster and Advanced Configuration Guide for MPSS December 2015 ~3MB

 

 

 

MPSS 3.7.2 release for Linux

MPSS version Downloads available Size (range) MD5 Checksum
mpss-3.7.2   (released: August 15, 2016)

Linux (mpss-3.7.2-linux.tar) for RedHat 6.6, RedHat 6.7, RedHat 6.8, RedHat 7.0, RedHat 7.1, RedHat 7.2, SuSE SLES11 SP4, SuSE SLES12, SuSE SLES12 SP1.
~290MB

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Software for Coprocessor OS (k1om) (mpss-3.7.2-k1om.tar)

 ~760MB

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  SOURCE (mpss-src-3.7.2.tar) ~280MB

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  Download Cache (mpss-downloadcache-3.7.2.tar) ~1.3GB

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Documentation link Description Last Updated On Size (approx)
releasenotes-linux.txt English - Release Notes August 2016 ~10KB
readme.txt Readme (includes installation instructions) for Linux (English) August 2016 ~20KB
MPSS_Users_Guide.pdf Complete Users Guide for MPSS for Linux (English) August 2016 ~4MB
SCIF_UserGuide.pdf SCIF User guide August 2016 ~800KB
license.txt INTEL SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT for Intel® Manycore Platform Software Stack (Intel® MPSS) August 2016 ~33KB

 

 

MPSS 3.7.2 release for Microsoft* Windows

MPSS version Downloads available Size MD5 Checksum
 mpss-3.7.2-windows.zip (release August 15, 2016)

Microsoft* Windows

 

 ~320MB

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Software for Coprocessor OS (k1om)  (mpss-3.7.2-k1om.tar)   ~760MB 6f21430676f6336c72ebf13950b0c926

 

Documentation link Description Last Updated On Size
releaseNotes-windows.txt English - release notes August 2016 ~13KB
readme-windows.pdf English (includes installation instructions) for Microsoft* Windows August 2016 ~720KB
MPSS_Users_Guide-windows.pdf User, Cluster and Advanced Configuration Guide for MPSS August 2016 ~3MB

 

 

MPSS 3.8.6 release for Linux

MPSS version Downloads available Size (range) MD5 Checksum

mpss-3.8.6(released: September 19, 2019)

Linux (mpss-3.8.6-linux.tar) for RedHat 6.7, RedHat 6.8, RedHat 6.9, RedHat 7.1, RedHat 7.2, RedHat 7.3, SuSE SLES11 SP4, SuSE SLES12, SuSE SLES12 SP1, SuSE SLES12 SP2.
~300MB

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Software for Coprocessor OS (k1om) (mpss-3.8.6-k1om.tar)

 ~790MB

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  SOURCE (mpss-src-3.8.6.tar) ~280MB

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  Download Cache (mpss-downloadcache-3.8.6.tar) ~1320MB

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Documentation link Description Last Updated On Size (approx)
releasenotes-linux.txt English - Release Notes September 2019 ~8KB
readme.txt Readme (includes installation instructions) for Linux (English) September 2019 ~21KB
MPSS_Users_Guide.pdf Complete Users Guide for MPSS for Linux (English) September 2019 ~4MB
SCIF_UserGuide.pdf SCIF User guide September 2019 ~820KB
license.txt INTEL SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT for Intel® Manycore Platform Software Stack (Intel® MPSS) September 2019 ~33KB

 

MPSS 3.8.6 release for Microsoft* Windows

MPSS version Downloads available Size MD5 Checksum
 mpss-3.8.6-windows.zip (release September 19, 2019)

Microsoft* Windows

 

 ~340MB 1dd0dcfc158c273cfc21da7f206c4508
Software for Coprocessor OS (k1om)  (mpss-3.8.6-k1om.tar)   ~790MB 6cd2be5255843a3fadaf8775e2179785

 

Documentation link Description Last Updated On Size
releaseNotes-windows.txt English - release notes September 2019 ~8KB
readme-windows.pdf English (includes installation instructions) for Microsoft* Windows September 2019 ~746KB
MPSS_Users_Guide-windows.pdf User, Cluster and Advanced Configuration Guide for MPSS September 2019 ~3MB

 

Additional documentation

There is additional documentation in the MPSS packages, more specifically:  man pages and documents in /usr/share/doc/ (see myo, intel-coi* and micmgmt directories).   The  Platform Control Panel User Guide is now in /usr/share/doc/micmgmt/en_US/.

Additionally, there is a document attached at the bottom of this article, the Intel® MPSS Performance Guide, which documents best known methods for fine tuning the Intel® MPSS runtime environment for best application performance.

http://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/72/db/mpss-performance-guide.pdf

Hetero Streams Library

Hetero Streams Library (hStreams) supports a task-based parallelism programming model in which tasks are submitted for asynchronous execution in streams.

MPSS 3.6 includes hStreams, its sample reference codes and documentations. Starting from version MPSS 3.7, hStreams is removed from MPSS package. hStreams binaries now can be downloaded from:

hStreams source code can be downloaded from https://github.com/01org/hetero-streams 

Where to ask questions

The discussion forum at Software is available to join and discuss any enhancements or issues with the MPSS.

Information about Intel® MPSS security can be found here 

You can also find support collaterals  here  or submit an issue

Additional Resources

Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor developer zone

Attachment Size
mpss-performance-guide.pdf 1.2 MB

Product and Performance Information

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Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.