Intel® Cilk™ Plus Support



Intel® Cilk™ Plus Support
This page gathers together links to technical articles related to Intel® Cilk Plus, one of the Intel® Parallel Building Blocks.


Intel Cilk Plus Overview - Get a high-level overview of the key features of Intel Cilk Plus.
Intel Cilk Plus Video - A five minute video reviewing the key features of Intel Cilk Plus.
Intel Parallel Building Blocks Overview - Or get an overview of the other pieces of Intel Parallel Building Blocks.
Intel Parallel Studio Getting Started Video - Shows how you can thread nQueens with Intel Cilk Plus keywords.
Product Documentation - Read the product document to learn more about Intel Cilk Plus
View the recording of a technical presentation: Introduction to Intel® Cilk Plus held September 28, 2010.
Intel Cilk Plus Community - Join in and discuss Intel Cilk Plus with other Cilk Plus users

White Papers
  • About Intel Cilk Plus and How to Get Started
  • Intel Cilk Plus Evaluation Guide
  • Intel Cilk Plus Specification
  • Intel Parallel Debugger Extension (includes features for Cilk Plus)
  • Support for Intel Cilk Plus in Intel Parallel Inspector 2011
  • Intel Cilk Plus Support in Intel Parallel Amplifier 2011 
  • Migrating from Intel Cilk++ to Intel Cilk Plus
  • Intel Cilk Plus Elemental Functions
  • Using an Intel Cilk Plus Reducer in C


  • Blogs
  • Detecting Theft by Hyperobject Abuse
  • Thread Parallelism Using Cilk Notation for C/C++
  • SIMD Parallelism using Array Notation
  • What Cilk Plus Solves for C and C++ Programmers


  • Technical Notes
  • Floating-point Settings in Worker Threads May Differ from Master Thread for OpenMP, TBB and Intel Cilk Plus
  • Invalid "error #2593: calls to non-vector function are not supported in vector function" at /Od or /O1
  • Intel Cilk Plus Requires Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 Support
  • Intel Cilk Plus Runtime Library cilkrts20.dll Can Only be Linked Dynamically
  • Using C99 VLAs or the alloca function in Intel Cilk Plus is not supported
  • Backend Signals error when compiling code including Intel Cilk Plus headers

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