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Intel® Parallel Advisor Lite Update 1 Released

By Jackson M (Intel) (3 posts) on September 28, 2009 at 7:17 am

The first Update for Intel® Parallel Advisor Lite (Advisor Lite) has been released and is available at http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/download-intel-parallel-studio-advisor-lite/. Advisor Lite is a free technology preview that helps software developers model parallelism in their existing serial C/C++ applications.

This update ensures that Advisor Lite works cleanly with Intel® Parallel Inspector Update 1, Intel® Parallel Amplifier Update 1, and Intel® Parallel Composer Update 1. In addition to the integration improvements, the Advisor Lite documentation has been revised to improve the workflow information in the Getting Started Guide and on-line help. This stresses the importance of the Advisor Lite methodolgy for parallelizing serial applications and makes it easier to follow the workflow while using the tool.

Also, the Advisor Lite homepage http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-parallel-advisor-lite/ has been updated with new information to describe how and when to use Advisor Lite and when to use the Intel Parallel Studio tools. The updated site also includes a blog section as a convenient way to locate timely on-line publications about Advisor Lite.

The Release Notes have been updated to address using Advisor Lite Samples with different versions of Intel® Threading Building Blocks.

In addition, this update also helps Advisor Lite work more cleanly with the first updates of the Parallel Studio tools.

You should only install Advisor Lite Update 1 with Intel Parallel Studio products that are also at Update 1. To confirm that you have already installed Update 1 of Intel Parallel Amplifier, Intel Parallel Inspector, and Intel Parallel Composer, do the following:

1. From the Control Panel, select Add or Remove Programs.
2. Scroll to the Intel products.
3. Verify that the versions displayed show Update 1 for Intel Parallel Amplifier, Intel Parallel Inspector, and Intel Parallel Composer.
4. If all products show Update 1 is installed, you can install Advisor Lite Update 1.

Uninstalling the Advisor Lite Update from systems with older versions of these products will cause the Amplifier, Inspector, and Composer items to disappear from the Visual Studio Help menu and the Solution Explorer context menu. You can fix the problem by using the Repair option for each product (Amplifier, Inspector, and Composer):

1. From the Control Panel, select Add or Remove Programs.
2. Scroll to the Intel product that needs to be repaired. Click (select) that product.
3. Select Change/Remove.
4. Select Repair.
5. Click Next>.
6. Click Repair.
7. Click Finish.

Categories: Parallel Programming, What If Software

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