What’s New

Feature	Benefit
Latest Processor Support Intel® Xeon® Processors and Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor	Intel consistently offers the first set of tools to take advantage of the latest performance enhancements in the newest Intel product, while preserving compatibility with older Intel and compatible processors. New support includes Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors, Intel® AVX2, TSX and FMA3.
Get Reproducible Results	Overcome the inherently non-associativity characteristics of floating-point arithmetic results with new support in the Intel® Math Kernel Library, along with special Intel support for OpenMP by the latest Intel® Composer XE 2013.
New Threading Assistant, Intel® Advisor XE 2013	Add parallelism to a threaded or an unthreaded app. Evaluate alternatives before investing in implementation. Intel® Advisor XE can assist developers in producing scalable, maintainable C, C++, C# and Fortran code.
C++ Performance Guide	If you’re not a performance expert, you will love the new C++ Performance Guide. Quick 5 step process for more performance.
Fortran and C++ Standards Support	Intel Fortran supports widely used features of the F2003 standard and key parts of the 2008 standard, including co-arrays. Intel demonstrates its commitment C++11 standard support in this release.
Find and Eliminate More Errors with Intel® Inspector XE 2013	Intel® Inspector XE 2013 is an efficient way to increase your application reliability to ensure performance in C, C++, C#, Fortran and MPI applications. The new heap growth analysis feature is another way to look for memory leaks.
Additional Profiling Data while Easier to Use	Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE 2013 is now easier to use and provides additional profiling data. Its powerful bandwidth and memory access analysis means spending less time puzzling over cryptic performance data and more time developing.
Pointer Checker	This new, compiler-based diagnostic tool helps you find code that accesses memory addresses beyond the allocated addresses. This helps with ‘security hardening’ and finding difficult memory corruption type bugs.

• Will Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2013 work with my existing environment?

• Yes. Our tools plug seamlessly into Visual Studio* and the GNU tool chain to keep you productive while preserving your development environment investment. Intel Parallel Studio XE 2013 offers excellent compatibility with leading compilers. Intel tools also support development and maintenance of software targeted to run on systems using processors compatible with the Intel Architecture.

• Where can I get more information on other types of information such as technical guides and release notes?

• For more information, please click on the Support tab

• How does a developer start developing parallel programs to take advantage of Intel’s processors?

• Optimizing for today’s multi-core platforms is the best way to be ready to use Intel® Many Integrated Core Architecture (Intel® MIC Architecture). Adopting Intel’s software development tools and programming models today will protect your programming investment moving forward as new processor technologies are introduced. C and C++ programmers should start with Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) 4.1 and Intel® Cilk™ Plus, which are included in Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2013 and Intel® Cluster Studio XE 2013. These offer task-based abstractions to exploit parallelism with a set of task and data parallel models that are portable, scalable, reliable and future-proof. These models easily integrate into existing applications, preserving software and hardware investments.

  Fortran programmers, and many C programmers, should look at OpenMP. Fortran programmers also have the new Coarray Fortran capabilities in the Intel Fortran compilers.

• Where can I get an evaluation copy of Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2013?

• 30 day evaluation versions of Intel® Software Development Products are available for free download. You can get free support during the evaluation period by creating an Intel® Premier Support account after requesting the evaluation license. Windows* and Linux*.

• What student discounts are available for Intel® Software Development Tools?

• Students are able to get all of our tools for one low price. Intel is dedicated to helping students build skills to become more employable for jobs in the IT industry. If you are a college or university student enrolled in a degree-granting program, you will a significant discount off the retail price of select software development tools. For more information on student and professor offerings please visit our Education Offerings website.

• What offers are available for academic researchers?

• Faculty using our tools for research purposes can receive a substantial discount compared to our commercial offerings. For more information on academic research offerings please visit our Education Offerings website.

• How do I get Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2013?

• If you have an active Software Subscription, you will automatically get the new release. You will receive an email notification, advising you of the availability and where to obtain update. You can also go to Intel® Software Development Products Registration Center. If your subscription has expired, you must renew or buy a new subscription. Additional Information.

• My current support subscription is ending soon, how can I receive the latest the latest software?

• When you purchase a license for an Intel® Software Development Product, you are entitled to the latest version of your product, as well as any new versions which are released during your license period. Renew your license now.

  If you have a valid subscription, you will be notified through email of new product updates and can download the latest bits from the Intel® Software Development Products Registration Center for no additional charge. Additional Information.

• I am only interested in a single development language. What version of the tools should I get?

• Intel® Parallel Studio XE addresses development for both C, C++ and Fortran. Intel® Fortran Studio XE 2013 and Intel® C++ Studio XE 2013 development suites are also available to address those developing only in a single language. Intel® Cluster Studio and Intel® Cluster Studio XE 2013 are only available with support for both C, C++ and Fortran.

• If I have an Intel® Parallel Studio, does this entitle me to get a free upgrade to Intel Parallel Studio XE 2013?

• No. To upgrade from Intel® Parallel Studio to Intel Parallel Studio XE, or Intel C++ Studio XE please visit the upgrade website.

• Are there other upgrade offers for other products, such as Intel® C++ Composer XE or Intel® Fortran Composer XE?

• Yes. Special upgrade offers are available. Please visit the upgrade website.

• Will Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2013 work with my existing environment?

• Yes. Our tools plug seamlessly into Visual Studio* and the GNU tool chain to keep you productive while preserving your development environment investment. Intel Parallel Studio XE offers excellent compatibility with leading compilers. Intel tools also support development and maintenance of software targeted to run on systems using processors compatible with the Intel Architecture.

• Where can I get more information on other types of information such as technical guides and release notes?

• For more information, please click on the Support tab

• How does a developer start developing parallel programs to take advantage of Intel’s processors?

• Optimizing for today’s multi-core platforms is the best way to be ready to use Intel® Many Integrated Core Architecture (Intel® MIC Architecture). Adopting Intel’s software development tools and programming models today will protect your programming investment moving forward as new processor technologies are introduced. C and C++ programmers should start with Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) 4.1 and Intel® Cilk™ Plus, which are included in Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2013 and Intel® Cluster Studio XE 2013. These offer task-based abstractions to exploit parallelism with a set of task and data parallel models that are portable, scalable, reliable and future-proof. These models easily integrate into existing applications, preserving software and hardware investments.

  Fortran programmers, and many C programmers, should look at OpenMP. Fortran programmers also have the new Coarray Fortran capabilities in the Intel Fortran compilers.

• Where can I get an evaluation copy of Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2013?

• 30 day evaluation versions of Intel® Software Development Products are available for free download. You can get free support during the evaluation period by creating an Intel® Premier Support account after requesting the evaluation license. Windows* and Linux.

• What student discounts are available for Intel® Software Development Tools?

• Students are able to get all of our tools for one low price. Intel is dedicated to helping students build skills to become more employable for jobs in the IT industry. If you are a college or university student enrolled in a degree-granting program, you will a significant discount off the retail price of select software development tools. For more information on student and professor offerings please visit our Education Offerings website.

• What offers are available for academic researchers?

• Faculty using our tools for research purposes can receive a substantial discount compared to our commercial offerings. For more information on academic research offerings please visit our Education Offerings website.

• How do I get Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2013?

• If you have an active Software Subscription, you will automatically get the new release. You will receive an email notification, advising you of the availability and where to obtain update. You can also go to Intel® Registration Center. If your subscription has expired, you must renew or buy a new subscription. Additional Information.

• My current support subscription is ending soon, how can I receive the latest the latest software?

• When you purchase a license for an Intel® Software Development Product, you are entitled to the latest version of your product, as well as any new versions which are released during your license period. Renew your license now.

  If you have a valid subscription, you will be notified through email of new product updates and can download the latest bits from the Intel® Registration Center for no additional charge. Additional Information.

• I am only interested in a single development language. What version of the tools should I get?

• Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2013 addresses development for both C/C++ and Fortran. Intel® Fortran Studio XE 2013 and Intel® C++ Studio XE 2013 development suites are also available to address those developing only in a single language. Intel® Cluster Studio and Intel® Cluster Studio XE 2013 are only available with support for both C/C++ and Fortran.

• If I have an Intel® Parallel Studio, does this entitle me to get a free upgrade to Intel Parallel Studio XE 2013?

• No. To upgrade from Intel® Parallel Studio to Intel Parallel Studio XE, or Intel C++ Studio XE please visit the upgrade website.

• Are there other upgrade offers for other products, such as Intel® C++ Composer XE or Intel® Fortran Composer XE?

• Yes. Special upgrade offers are available. Please visit the upgrade website.