Developer Guide for Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications 2017
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Introducing the Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications
OpenCL™ (Open Computing Language) standard provides a uniform programming environment for software developers to write portable general-purpose parallel code for high-performance computing servers, client computer systems, and other computing systems. OpenCL is developed by multiple companies through the Khronos* OpenCL committee, and Intel is a key contributor to the OpenCL standard since its inception.
Intel® Code Builder for OpenCL™ API is a software development tool available as part of the Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications. The Intel Code Builder for OpenCL API enables development of OpenCL applications via well-known integrated development environments, targeting the Intel® Architecture processors with the Intel® Processor Graphics.
Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications provides a set of Microsoft Visual Studio* and Eclipse* plug-ins that enable capabilities for creating, building, debugging, and analyzing Windows* and Linux* applications accelerated with OpenCL™. In addition, a standalone GUI version is available for fast create and build. See the table below for the supported features.
You can acquire the Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications as a part of Intel® Media Server Studio suites or as a standalone version.
Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications supported features:
| Feature | Microsoft Visual Studio* | Eclipse* | Beta | Stage of development |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenCL* 1.2 Support | Yes | Yes | Create and Build | |
| OpenCL* 2.0 Support with 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th generation Intel® Core™ processors | Yes | Yes | ||
| OpenCL* 2.1 development environment on previous CPU generations | Yes | Yes | ||
| Kernel development framework | Yes | Yes | ||
| OpenCL Project wizard | Yes | |||
| Syntax highlighting | Yes | Yes | ||
| Code auto-completion | Yes | Yes | ||
| Offline compilation | Yes | Yes | ||
| SPIR* 1.2 generation and consumption | Yes | Yes | ||
| SPIR* V generation and consumption | Yes | Yes | ||
| API-level debugging | Yes | Debug | ||
| Image and memory view | Yes | |||
| API call tracing | Yes | |||
| Step-by-step debugging for CPU kernels | Yes | |||
| Step-by-step debugging for GPU kernels | Yes | Yes | ||
| API calls and memory command analysis | Yes | Yes | Analyze | |
| Kernel occupancy and latency analysis | Yes | Yes |