Introduction
System requirements for the Intel® OSPRay component of Intel® oneAPI Rendering Toolkit
Version History
| Date | Toolkit Version | Component Version | Major Change Summary |
| September 2023 | 2023.2.1 | 2.12.0 | Library rebuild with 2023.2.2 Intel® oneAPI DPC++ Compiler. No other library change. |
| July 2023 | 2023.2.0 | 2.12.0 | OIDN 2.0 and Embree 4.1.0 compatibility |
| May 2023 | 2023.1.1 | 2.11.0 | No change |
| March 2023 | 2023.1 | 2.11.0 | Bug fixes, Uses Embree 4.x (no dGPU targeting), ISPCRT dependency (Linux* req's OpenMP*) |
| December 2022 | 2023.0 | 2.10.0 | No Change |
| September 2022 | 2022.3.1 | 2.10.0 | No Change |
| 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 |
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)
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
- 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
Windows* Host
- Windows* 10
- Windows* 11
- Windows* Server 2019, 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) 2021.9.0 or higher
- Included: Intel® Embree ray tracing kernels version 4.1.0-beta or higher
- Included: Intel® Open VKL version 1.3.2
- Included: Intel® Open Image Denoise 2.0.0
- 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++17 or higher recommended)
- Included: Intel® OSPRay rkcommon 1.11.0 library
- Included: Intel® Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (Intel® ISPC) version 1.20.0
- Included: ISPCRT Runtime
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)
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
- 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
Windows* Host
- Windows* 10
- Windows* 11
- Windows* Server 2019, 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) 2021.8.0 or higher
- Included: Intel® Embree ray tracing kernels version 4.0.1-beta or higher
- Included: Intel® Open VKL version 1.3.2
- 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++17 or higher recommended)
- Included: Intel® OSPRay rkcommon 1.11.0 library
- Included: Intel® Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (Intel® ISPC) version 1.19.0
- Included: ISPCRT Runtime
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* 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++17 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.x
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