Intel® HPC Toolkit System Requirements

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Updated 12/16/2024
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This article lists the system requirements for Intel® HPC Toolkit. Intel® HPC Toolkit requires Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit, please see the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit System Requirements for additional information.

Hardware Requirements

  • CPU Processor:
    • Intel® Core Processor Family
    • Intel® Xeon® Processor family
    • Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
    • Intel® Core Ultra processors
  • Accelerators:
    • Intel® UHD Graphics for 11th generation Intel processors or newer
    • Intel® Iris® Xe graphics
    • Intel® Arc™ graphics
    • Intel® Server GPU
    • Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series
    • Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM recommended
  • Disk space: 14GB for all features

Software Requirements

Intel® HPC Toolkit is complemented by Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit.

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.

Intel® oneAPI 2025 is validated on Windows and Linux.

Linux* OS

Supported Target Operating Systems:

  • Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 8.x, 9.x
  • SUSE* Linux* Enterprise Server 15 SP4, SP5, SP6
  • Ubuntu* 22.04, 24.04
  • Fedora 39, 40
  • Rocky Linux 9
  • Debian* 11, 12
  • Amazon* Linux 2022, 2023
  • WSL 2

Note, only a limited subset of operating systems are supported for offload to supported accelerators:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8, 8.10, 9.2, 9.4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4, SP5, SP6
  • Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04

Developer Tool Requirements:

  • GNU* Bash is required for local installation and for setting up the environment to use the toolkit.
  • Linux kernel 4.11 or higher
  • Linux Developer tools component installed, including gcc, g++ and related tools.
    The Intel® compilers are tested with a number of different Linux distributions, with different versions of gcc. The version of glibc you use must be consistent with the version of gcc in use. other distributions may or may not work and are not recommended. If you have questions and have Commercial Support, create a support ticket. Otherwise use the Intel Community Forums when you need assistance.
  • GNU* GCC* v5.1 or higher
  • The latest version of the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers install package available at https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/.
  • Tool clinfo: a utility that prints out information about available devices on your system.
  • For GPU Development:

Windows* OS

Supported Target Operating Systems:

  • Microsoft* Windows* Pro and Enterprise 10, 11
  • Microsoft* 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 here: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/use-oneapi-toolkits-on-wsl-2.html

Developer Tool Requirements:

GPU Development Requirements:

OpenCL and Level 0 graphics drivers are required:

  • To install the Linux General Purpose Intel GPUs (GPGPU) Driver, see this article and follow the installation directions for your device.

OS Deprecation Notice

  • None

Development Tools

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Extensions for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits

The VS Code extensions for oneAPI Toolkits provide assistance to developers who are creating, debugging and profiling oneAPI applications. The Using Visual Studio Code with Intel® oneAPI Toolkits User Guide provides additional detail.

The following VS Code extensions are available in the VS Code marketplace:

  • Sample Browser for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
  • Environment Configurator for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
  • Analysis Configurator for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
  • GDB GPU Support for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
  • DevCloud Connector for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits

See also:

Diagnostics Utility for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits

The Diagnostics Utility for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits is designed to diagnose the system status for using Intel® products. With this utility, you can identify errors such as:

  • Permissions errors for the current user
  • Missing driver or an incompatible version of a driver
  • Incompatible version of the Operating System

To learn more, see the Diagnostics Utility for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits User Guide.

Third Party GPUs

Known Issues

  • The environment start up scripts have been migrated to POSIX compliant scripts. For non-POSIX shells, such as csh, there is a workaround for command-line usage for the Component Directory Layout:

    % bash -c 'source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh ; exec csh'

    For the Unified Directory Layout use

    % bash -c 'source <install-dir>/<toolkit-version>/oneapi-vars.sh ; exec csh'

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