The principles of open development across software, hardware, and standards hold the keys to innovation, growth, and equal access to technology; together, we can create world-changing technology that improves the lives of everyone on the planet. Intel supports the Contributor Covenant.
What’s New
Open Letter to an Open Ecosystem
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger shares his perspective on the significance of open-source software and his belief that innovation thrives in an open ecosystem. Check out Pat’s call to action that empowers us all to enable our shared future through openness, choice, and trust.
Gramine (Formerly Graphene)
Gramine joins the Linux Foundation* as an official Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) project. (It's the newest project at the CCC.) Gramine is a lightweight library operating system. The project is designed to run applications in an isolated environment with benefits comparable to running a complete operating system in a virtual machine.
Linux* Kernel Contributions
Intel continues its position as a top contributor to the Linux* kernel. The company provided over 13,000 lines of code in just over 1,300 change sets (roughly 10% of the changes) to the kernel version 5.14. This includes:
- Extensive testing of an x86 floating point unit (FPU) code cleanup intended to increase stability
- Contributions to the core scheduling feature that allow multi-tenant hosts to enable hyperthreading with reduced exposure of tenant data on shared cores
Open 3D Engine (O3DE*)
The O3DE* Foundation hosts an Apache* 2.0 licensed multiplatform 3D engine that enables developers and content creators to build Triple-A (AAA) games, cinema-quality 3D worlds, and high-fidelity simulations without fees or commercial obligations.
Community Projects and Initiatives
Community-built open software based on open standards has fueled the modern connected world. Intel has been a leader in this community from the beginning and recognizes the value and need to contribute to a healthy, open ecosystem. Intel invests its time, expertise, and engineers in a myriad of critical open projects and foundations, employing many community maintainers who work across large and small projects.
Featured Projects
Open Edge Insights
Empower the industrial IoT edge ecosystem with differentiated features that facilitate development and deployment of software-defined AI solutions in:
- Manufacturing
- Process automation
- Energy generation and distribution
- Supply-chain logistics
This microservice, open-source software project accomplishes this work by reducing complexity, providing best-in-class configurations, and optimizing for performance.
Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK*)
This multiarchitecture set of libraries accelerates:
- Network-packet-processing workloads within a minimum number of CPU cycles
- Fast-packet capture algorithms
- Ability to run third-party, fast-path stacks
Some packet-processing functions (built using the underlying DPDK technology) were benchmarked at up to a billion 64-byte packets per second on a single-server platform.
Kata Containers
A secure container runtime, Kata Containers provide stronger workload isolation as an extra defense against attacks. To support multiple architectures, this open-source project merged RunV from Hyper.sh with Intel® Clear Containers.
Zephyr* Project
Deliver connected, secure devices that support over 170 hardware devices. Give members a clear path for upstreaming code and participating in a future roadmap.
Open Compute Project* (OCP)
The mission of this project is to:
- Apply the benefits of open source and open collaboration to hardware
- Rapidly increase the pace of innovation in, near, and around the data center
Intel’s goal with OCP is to meet the market, scale, and lead innovation within the open ecosystem. Intel fosters open compute and drives adoption of OCP products by contributing to and influencing efficient designs for scalable computing from cloud to edge.
Bytecode Alliance
This nonprofit organization is dedicated to creating secure new software foundations, building on standards such as WebAssembly (Wasm) and WebAssembly System Interface (WASI). Establish a capable, secure platform for confidently running untrusted code on any infrastructure, for any operating system or device, inside web browsers.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation* (CNCF)
The foundation provides vendor-neutral home for the fastest-growing open-source projects that build the global technology infrastructure for public, private, and hybrid clouds. Its projects include Kubernetes*, gRPC, Container Network Interface (CNI), Prometheus, and Envoy. Intel invests in projects across CNCF to ensure best-in-class support for its products.
Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF*)
A cross-industry collaboration brings together open-source security initiatives under one foundation to accelerate work through cross-industry support. OpenSSF began with the Core Infrastructure Initiative and the Open Source Security Coalition. It includes new working groups that address vulnerability disclosures, security tooling, and more.
Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX)*
Communicate software bill of material information that includes provenance, license, and security. The specification is published as ISO/IEC 5962:2021 and recognized as the open standard for security, license compliance, and other software supply-chain artifacts.
3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP*)
Provide a complete system description for cellular telecommunications: service capabilities, core network, and radio access. Several standard development organizations partner in this project. As a result, their members gain a stable environment for 3GPP technologies.
TianoCore
This is an open-source implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). Use a companion product—EDK II, which is based on Intel's recommended implementation of UEFI—as a modern, cross-platform firmware development environment.
Sound Open Firmware (SOF)
This open source, permissively-licensed, audio-processing infrastructure is targeted at audio digital signal processors (DSPs). SOF provides audio-processing source code and tooling to allow developers to build feature-rich audio pipelines. The SOF firmware, tools, and drivers are platform- and architecture-agnostic, which allows developers to customize firmware and software for any hardware.
Projects from Intel
In addition to community contributions, Intel engineers create and maintain hundreds of open-source projects—from low-level tools to full containerized stacks—to help you reach your goals.
Browse our curated, searchable catalog of product-focused projects and software development kits (SDK) or go directly to the sources on GitHub* to browse all projects.
Device Plug-ins from Intel for Kubernetes*
This collection provides Intel® hardware resources to the kubelet. The operator validates container image references and extends reported statuses. It provides basic support for:
- Intel® QuickAssist Technology
- GPUs
- FPGAs
- Intel® Software Guard Extensions
Intel® Extension for Scikit-learn*
This package provides a seamless way to speed up a scikit-learn* application. It contains a patching functionality (originally available in daal4py) that provides a machine-learning framework that's well suited for dealing with real-life problems.
Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (ACAT)
Constrained interfaces enable people with motor-neuron diseases and other disabilities to have full access to their computer capabilities and applications. Developed with Stephen Hawking, ACAT enables users to communicate through keyboard simulation, word prediction, and speech synthesis. Perform a range of tasks such as editing, managing documents, navigating the web, and accessing emails.
Intel® Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit (Intel® HE Toolkit)
Evaluate homomorphic encryption technology on Intel® processors using libraries in this toolkit. Intel® HE Toolkit is good starting point for developers who are new to this type of encryption because it provides:
- Sample kernels that show how to implement common mathematical operations
- Example applications that demonstrate how to create secure applications
Intel® OSPRay Studio
Use this open-source and interactive visualization and ray-tracing application to load scenes requiring high-fidelity rendering or supercomputing resources.
Intel® Federated Learning (Intel® FL)
A Python* version 3 library, Intel® FL enables organizations to collaboratively train a model without sharing sensitive information. A collaborator uses a local dataset to train a global model, and then an aggregator receives the model updates and combines them to form the model.
Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (Intel® HAXM)
This cross-platform, hardware-assisted virtualization engine is commonly used as an accelerator for Android Emulator* and QEMU. Intel® HAXM enables applications to use Intel® Virtualization Technology capabilities that are built into Intel® CPUs by:
- Running as a kernel-mode driver on the host operating system
- Providing an interface that's similar to a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) to the user space
Project Celadon
Celadon is an open-source Android* distribution fully optimized for Intel® platforms. It modifies the Android stack by incorporating critical technologies that allow you to run Android applications in virtual machines and containers. With Celadon, broad workload-consolidation use cases (from edge to cloud) become accessible across different Intel® platforms using a single, unified code base.