Intel® oneAPI Rendering Toolkit: Intel® Embree System Requirements

Introduction

System requirements for the Intel® Embree component of Intel® oneAPI Rendering Toolkit

Version History

2023.2.1

The Intel® oneAPI 2023.2.1 release only features use of an updated compiler toolchain with no other changes. See 2023.2.0 for system requirements.

2023.2.0

Supported Operating Systems (Host and Target)

Linux* CPU Host

• Ubuntu* LTS 22.04, 20.04
• Rocky* Linux 8, 9
• Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* (RHEL*) 8, 9
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* (SLES) 15 SP3, SP4
• Fedora* 36,37
• Debian* 9, 10, 11
• Amazon 2, 2022
• WSL 2

Linux* GPU Host (X^e-HPG or X^e-HPC architectures and higher)

• Ubuntu* LTS 22.04, 20.04
  • Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics, Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series
• Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* (RHEL*) 8.5
  • Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series
• Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* (RHEL*) 8.6
  • Intel® Data Center GPU MAX Series, Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* (SLES) 15 SP3, SP4
  • Intel® Data Center GPU MAX Series

Updates to OS and driver support for discrete GPU are occurring rapidly. Please see https://dgpu-docs.intel.com/ for OS support updates. To target discrete GPU, a compatible discrete GPU device is currently required both at client program build-time and at run-time. Intel® processor graphics Gen12, Intel® Iris Xe MAX(codename DG1) devices are not compatible with Render Kit.

Windows* CPU/GPU Host

• Windows* 10
• Windows* 11
• Windows* Server 2019, 2022
• Using Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) in Windows 10 and Windows 11, you can install the native Linux distribution of Intel oneAPI toolkits and libraries on Windows for CPU and GPU workflows: Details.

macOS* CPU Only Host

• Intel® 64 based systems:
  • macOS* 12.0 Monterey
  • macOS* 13.0
• Apple* M1 based systems:
  • macOS* 12.0 Monterey or higher

Supported Target Hardware Platforms

The following platforms are supported by most software components.

NOTE: Intel® 64 hardware platforms must support at least Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2. Full software optimization is implemented for Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512. See ark.intel.com to search device capabilities.

• Intel® 64
  • Intel Atom® processors
  • Intel® Core™ processor family
  • Intel® Xeon® processor family
  • Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family
• ARM
  • Apple* M1
• X^e-HPG or X^e-HPC architectures and higher (Embree Only)
  • Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics
  • Intel® Data Center GPU MAX Series
  • Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series

Software Requirements

GPU support

Windows Intel® Graphics Driver

To install the driver follow the directions in the article appropriate for your device

• Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics (DG2)
  • https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/726609/intel-arc-graphics-windows-dch-driver.html
• Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series (ATS-M)
  • Contact your OEM representative for access to the Intel Registration Center.
• Intel® processor graphics Gen12, Intel® Iris Xe MAX(codename DG1) devices are not compatible with Embree.

Linux General Purpose Intel GPUs (GPGPU) Driver

For all Intel GPUs, see this article, https://dgpu-docs.intel.com/, and follow the directions for your device.

Prerequisites

• Intel oneTBB version 2021.9 or higher (installed automatically with toolkit)
• Intel rkcommon library version 1.11.0 (installed automatically with toolkit)
• Discrete GPU support: Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler found in the Base Kit (explained in toolkit configuration instructions)
• Included: Intel® Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (Intel® ISPC) version 1.20.0 or higher (included)
  • Required for Intel optimized CPU code paths
• A C99 and C++11 capable system compiler (C++17 or higher recommended)

Development Environment

Windows* OS:

• Microsoft Visual Studio* 2019 or higher is recommended

macOS*:

• XCode* & XCode* command line tools

2023.1

Supported Operating Systems (Host and Target)

Linux* CPU Host

• Ubuntu* LTS 22.04, 20.04
• Rocky* Linux 8, 9
• Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* (RHEL*) 8, 9
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* (SLES) 15 SP3, SP4
• Fedora* 36,37
• Debian* 9, 10, 11
• Amazon 2, 2022
• WSL 2

Linux* GPU Host (X^e-HPG or X^e-HPC architectures and higher)

NOTE: As of 2023.1, only the Embree library component has discrete GPU support.

• Ubuntu* LTS 22.04, 20.04
  • Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics, Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series
• Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* (RHEL*) 8.5
  • Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series
• Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* (RHEL*) 8.6
  • Intel® Data Center GPU MAX Series, Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* (SLES) 15 SP3, SP4
  • Intel® Data Center GPU MAX Series

Updates to OS and driver support for discrete GPU are occurring rapidly. Please see https://dgpu-docs.intel.com/ for OS support updates. To target discrete GPU, a compatible discrete GPU device is currently required both at client program build-time and at run-time. Intel® processor graphics Gen12, Intel® Iris Xe MAX(codename DG1) devices are not compatible with Render Kit.

Known Issues

GPU offload applications using extensive multi-threading (>2 threads) may experience hangs or time out which can be recovered only though a hard reset or power cycling of the system for the following Linux Distributions. The issue occurs when reading/writing data to the Intel GPU while making extensive use of multi-threading due to a defect in older Linux kernels.  

Workaround

• Preferred:  Upgrade to a Linux distribution where the defect has been fixed. Note that the software will run, but a warning message will appear in kernel logs.
• GPU software for Ubuntu 20.04.03 is available now via https://dgpu-docs.intel.com. Note that the software will run, but a warning message will appear in kernel logs. GPU software for RHEL 8.5. will be available in Q1 2022 at the same location. GPU software for SLES15 SP4 will be available shortly after general availability of SLES15 SP4.
• Alternative: Do not use extensive multi-threading in GPU-enabled applications, i.e. keep the number of threads no more than 2. For example, for applications using the oneAPI MPI library, use the single threaded version of the MPI run-time library, rather than the multi-threaded version. Set the environment variable I_MPI_THREAD_SPLIT=0 to use the single threaded version of MPI.
   

Windows* CPU/GPU Host

• Windows* 10
• Windows* 11
• Windows* Server 2019, 2022
• Using Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) in Windows 10 and Windows 11, you can install the native Linux distribution of Intel oneAPI toolkits and libraries on Windows for CPU and GPU workflows: Details.

macOS* CPU Only Host

• Intel® 64 based systems:
  • macOS* 12.0 Monterey
  • macOS* 13.0
• Apple* M1 based systems:
  • macOS* 12.0 Monterey or higher

Supported Target Hardware Platforms

The following platforms are supported by most software components.

NOTE: Intel® 64 hardware platforms must support at least Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2. Full software optimization is implemented for Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512. See ark.intel.com to search device capabilities.

• Intel® 64
  • Intel Atom® processors
  • Intel® Core™ processor family
  • Intel® Xeon® processor family
  • Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family
• ARM
  • Apple* M1
• X^e-HPG or X^e-HPC architectures and higher (Embree Only)
  • Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics
  • Intel® Data Center GPU MAX Series
  • Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series

Software Requirements

GPU support

Windows Intel® Graphics Driver

To install the driver follow the directions in the article appropriate for your device

• Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics (DG2)
  • https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/726609/intel-arc-graphics-windows-dch-driver.html
• Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series (ATS-M)
  • Contact your OEM representative for access to the Intel Registration Center.
• Intel® processor graphics Gen12, Intel® Iris Xe MAX(codename DG1) devices are not compatible with Render Kit.

Linux General Purpose Intel GPUs (GPGPU) Driver

For all Intel GPUs, see this article, https://dgpu-docs.intel.com/, and follow the directions for your device.

Prerequisites

• Intel oneTBB version 2021.8 or higher (installed automatically with toolkit)
• Intel rkcommon library version 1.11.0 (installed automatically with toolkit)
• Discrete GPU support: Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler found in the Base Kit (explained in toolkit configuration instructions)
• Included: Intel® Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (Intel® ISPC) version 1.19.0 or higher (included)
  • Required for Intel optimized CPU code paths
• A C99 and C++11 capable compiler (C++17 recommended)

Development Environment

Windows* OS:

• Microsoft Visual Studio* 2019 or higher is recommended

macOS*:

• XCode* & XCode* command line tools

2023.0

Supported Operating Systems (Host and Target)

NOTE: The following distributions are supported by most components. These OS distributions are tested by Intel or known to work; other distributions may or may not work and are not recommended. If you have questions, access the Intel Community Forums when you need assistance.  If you have Commercial Support, create a support ticket.

Linux* Host

• Ubuntu* LTS 22.04, 20.04
• Rocky* Linux 8, 9
• Arch Linux*
• Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* (RHEL*) 8, 9
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* (SLES) 15 SP3, SP4
• Fedora* 36,37
• Debian* 11
• Amazon 2022

Windows* Host

• Windows* 10
• Windows* 11
• Windows* Server 2019, 2022

macOS* Host

• Intel® 64 based systems:
  • macOS* 12.0 Monterey
  • macOS* 13.0
• Apple* M1 based systems:
  • macOS* 12.0 Monterey or higher

Supported Target Hardware Platforms

The following platforms are supported by most software components.

NOTE: Intel® 64 hardware platforms must support at least Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2. Full software optimization is implemented for Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512. See ark.intel.com to search device capabilities.

• Intel® 64
  • Intel Atom® processors
  • Intel® Core™ processor family
  • Intel® Xeon® processor family
  • Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family
• ARM
  • Apple* M1

Software Requirements

Prerequisites

• Included: Intel® oneAPI Threading Building Blocks (oneTBB) 2021.5.0 or higher
• Included: Intel® Implicit SPMD Program Compiler version 1.18.0
  • Required for Intel optimized code paths
• A C99 and C++11 capable compiler (C++17 recommended)

Development Environment

Windows* OS:

• Microsoft Visual Studio* 2019 or higher is recommended

macOS*:

• XCode* & XCode* command line tools

2022.x

• System Requirements

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