Introduction
System requirements for Intel® OSPRay component of Intel® oneAPI Rendering Toolkit
Version History
| Date | Toolkit Version | Component Version | Major Change Summary |
| September 2022 | 2022.3 | 2.10.0 | Primitive, object, and insance ID buffers into fb. Adaptive accumulation per task. Face varying attributes. |
| April 2022 | 2022.2 | 2.9.0 | Light updates, bug fixes, volume updates |
| December 2021 | 2022.1 | 2.8.0 | Lights updates. Rolling shutter controls support. Quarternon motion blur updates. |
| September 2021 | 2021.4 | 2.7.0 | Feature Updates |
| June 2021 | 2021.3 | 2.6.0 | Feature Updates |
| March 2021 | 2021.2 | 2.5.0 | Feature Updates |
| November 2020 | 2021.1 | 2.4.0 | Gold |
2022.3
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 20.04
- Rocky* Linux 8
- Oracle* Linux 8
- Arch Linux*
- Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* (RHEL*) 8
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* (SLES) 15 SP3
- Fedora* 35
- Debian* 11
Windows* Host
- Windows* 10
- Windows* 11
- Windows* Server 2022
macOS* Host
- Intel® 64 based systems:
- macOS* 10.15 Catalina
- macOS* 11.0, 11.2 Big Sur
- macOS* 12.0 Monterey
- 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® Embree ray tracing kernels version 3.13.4 or higher
- Included: Intel® Open VKL version 1.3.0
- Recommended: OpenGL* to run the ospExamples example viewer sample program
- Optional: Intel® MPI Library to use the distributed multi-node rendering feature
- A C99 and C++11 capable compiler (C++14 or higher recommended)
- Included: Intel® OSPRay rkcommon 1.10.0 library (included in toolkit)
- Included: Intel® Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (Intel® ISPC) version 1.18.0
Development Environment
Windows* OS:
- Microsoft Visual Studio* 2019 or higher is recommended
macOS*:
- XCode* & XCode* command-line tools
2022.2
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 20.04
- Rocky* Linux 8
- Oracle* Linux 8
- Arch Linux*
- Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* (RHEL*) 8
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* (SLES) 15 SP3
- Fedora* 35
- Debian* 11
Windows* Host
- Windows* 10
- Windows* 11
- Windows* Server 2022
macOS* Host
- Intel® 64 based systems:
- macOS* 10.15 Catalina
- macOS* 11.0, 11.2 Big Sur
- macOS* 12.0 Monterey
- 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® Embree ray tracing kernels version 3.13.3 or higher
- Included: Intel® Open VKL version 1.2.0
- Recommended: OpenGL* to run the ospExamples example viewer sample program
- Optional: Intel® MPI Library to use the distributed multi-node rendering feature
- A C99 and C++11 capable compiler (C++14 or higher recommended)
- Intel® OSPRay rkcommon 1.9.0 library (included in toolkit)
- Optional: Intel® Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (Intel® ISPC) version 1.17.0
Development Environment
Windows* OS:
- Microsoft Visual Studio* 2019 is recommended
macOS*:
- XCode* & XCode* command-line tools
2022.1
OS Deprecation Notice
These operating systems are deprecated in this release, Intel oneAPI 2022.1, and will be removed in a future release:
- Windows Server 2016*
- Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 7
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* 15 SP2
- Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS
- CentOS* 7
- Fedora 34
- Fedora 35
- Clear Linux*
- Yocto
- macOS* 11
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 20.04
- Rocky* Linux 8
- Oracle* Linux 8
- Arch Linux*
- Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* (RHEL*) 8
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* (SLES) 15 SP3
Windows* Host
- Windows* 10
- Windows* 11
macOS* Host
- Intel® 64 based systems: macOS* 12 or higher
- Apple* M1 based systems: macOS* 12 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) 2021.4.0 or higher
- Included: Intel® Embree ray tracing kernels version 3.13.2 or higher
- Included: Intel® Open VKL version 1.1.0
- Recommended: OpenGL* to run the ospExamples example viewer sample program
- Optional: Intel® MPI Library to use the distributed multi-node rendering feature
- A C99 and C++11 capable compiler (C++14 or higher recommended)
- Intel® OSPRay rkcommon 1.8.0 library (included in toolkit)
- Optional: Intel® Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (Intel® ISPC) version 1.16.1
Development Environment
Windows* OS:
- Microsoft Visual Studio* 2019 is recommended
macOS*:
- XCode* & XCode* command-line tools
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