Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications

Customize heterogeneous compute applications and accelerate performance

  • Uniquely offload compute to Intel® Graphics Technology that's tailored to your specific application needs
  • Deliver high-performance image and video processing pipelines
  • Enhance power efficiency
  • Take advantage of code builder functions for the OpenCL™ API to efficiently build, debug, and analyze kernel codes
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Announcements and New Content

Release: What's New in Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications 2017 R2

Webinar Replay: Develop Smart Computer Vision Solutions Faster
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White Paper: A Guide for Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications
Install Linux* applications on Ubuntu* 16.04. Get started with code samples in the Eclipse* IDE.

Intel is a strong supporter of OpenCL™ software technology. The Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications is a comprehensive development environment for developing and optimizing OpenCL applications on Intel® platforms, and part of an increasingly rich portfolio of Intel tools for heterogeneous programming. The SDK supports offloading compute-intensive parallel workloads to Intel® Graphics Technology using an advanced OpenCL kernel compiler, runtime debugger, and code performance analyzer. The SDK and driver and run-time packages are installed separately.

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Build for Competitive Advantage and Easier Heterogeneous Approach

Get the freedom to develop your own proprietary algorithms directly on multiple types of Intel®-based devices.

  • Low-level development using the framework from the OpenCL application provides the freedom to develop competitive IP-based applications.
  • Common front end for coding Intel-based devices: CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs.
  • Fast emulation platform for FPGAs provides an opportunity to optimize and innovate faster. For more information, see: Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ software technology.

Innovate new features for competitive advantage together with other complimentary software tools (Intel® System Studio, Intel® Media SDK, and Intel® Computer Vision SDK) and libraries.

Increase Productivity and Efficiency

  • Perform custom development across multiple hardware types. While not performance portable, it reduces development learning time for new hardware to days, as compared to months for hardware-specific stacks.
  • Use the OpenCL application to extend pipelines written using Intel Media SDK and Intel Computer Vision SDK with your custom algorithms.
  • Optimize system performance and power with analyzers in Intel System Studio, such as Intel® VTune™ Amplifier.

Learn more about OpenCL: OpenCL Overview from Khronos

For driver components that you need to download for your system, see: OpenCL™ Drivers and Runtimes for Intel® Architecture.

Technical Specifications

Processors1

       CPU and GPU target support:

  • Iris® Plus graphics 600 series and Intel® HD Graphics 600 series:
    • 7th generation Intel® Core™ processors
  • Iris® Pro graphics 500 series, Iris® graphics 500 series and Intel® HD Graphics 500 series:
    • 6th generation Intel® Core™ processors
    • Intel® Pentium® processor with Intel® HD Graphics 505: J4000 Series (J4205), and N4000 Series (N4200)
    • Intel® Celeron® processor with Intel® HD Graphics 500: J3000 Series (J3455, J3355), and N3000 Series (N3350, N3450)
  • Iris® Pro graphics 6000 series, Iris® graphics 6000 series, Intel® HD Graphics 6000 series, and Intel® HD Graphics 5000 series:
    • 5th generation Intel® Core™ processors
  • Iris® Pro graphics P500 series and Intel® HD Graphics P500 series:
    • Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1500 v5
  • Iris® Pro graphics P6300 and Intel® HD Graphics P5700:
    • Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 v4

CPU target support:

  • 1st through 4th generation Intel® Core™ processors
  • 1st through 4th generation Intel® Xeon® processors

OpenCL™ Application Versions
  • 2.1, 2.0, 1.2 (support may vary based on platform configuration)

Development Tools and Environments
  • Microsoft Visual Studio* 2012 or newer – includes 2017 (Microsoft Windows*)
  • Eclipse* Oxygen (4.7) and neon™ (4.6)

Operating Systems
  • Windows® 10 (64-bit desktop mode)
  • Linux*: CentOS* 7.3, Ubuntu* 16.04, Yocto Project*2

1 Processor support may vary based on operating system.
2 Yocto Project is supported as a target configuration only. Development is supported on a Linux host.

For a full list of supported configurations please refer to the product’s release notes