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.
Directory Layout Change
Directory layout is improved across all products to streamline installation and setup.
The Unified Directory Layout is implemented in 2024.0. If you have multiple toolkit versions installed, the Unified layout ensures that your development environment contains the correct component versions for each installed version of the toolkit.
The directory layout used before 2024.0, the Component Directory Layout, is still supported on new and existing installations.
For detailed information about the Unified layout, including how to initialize the environment and advantages with the Unified layout, refer to Use the setvars and oneapi-vars Scripts with Linux and Use the setvars and oneapi-vars Scripts with Windows.
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 2024 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 SP3, SP4, SP5
- Ubuntu* 20.04, 22.04, 24.04
- Fedora 39, 40
- Rocky Linux 9
- Debian* 11
- Amazon* Linux 2022
- WSL 2
Note, only a limited subset of operating systems are supported for offload to supported accelerators:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6, 8.8, 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:
- For all Intel GPUs, see this article, https://dgpu-docs.intel.com/, and follow the directions for your device.
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:
- Microsoft* Visual Studio* 2019 or 2022 Community, Enterprise and Professional Editions with 'Desktop development with C++' component installed are supported
- For more details on Visual Studio version compatibility, see Intel® Compilers Compatibility with Microsoft Visual Studio* and Xcode*
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.
macOS*
NOTE Intel HPC Toolkit for macOS on x86 is discontinued in the 2024.0 release.
OS Deprecation Notice
The following OS support is deprecated with 2024.0 and will be discontinued with a future release:
- CPU:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) version 15 SP3
- Ubuntu Linux version 20.04
- FedoraLinux version 37
- Debian Linux version 11
- Amazon Linux version 2022
- GPU:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 8.6
The following OS support is deprecated with 2024.1 and will be discontinued with a future release:
- CPU:
- Fedora 38
The following OS support is deprecated with 2024.2 and will be discontinued with a future release:
- CPU:
- SLES 15 SP3
- Ubuntu LTS 20.04
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:
- Get Started with Intel® HPC Toolkit for Linux
- Get Started with Intel® HPC Toolkit for Windows
- Get Started with Intel® oneAPI Base and HPC Toolkit for MacOS*
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
- To use an AMD* GPU with the Intel® oneAPI DPC++ Compiler, install the oneAPI for AMD GPUs plugin from Codeplay.
- To use an NVIDIA* GPU with the Intel® oneAPI DPC++ Compiler, install the oneAPI for NVIDIA GPUs plugin from Codeplay.
Known Issues
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There is a known issue integrating Intel software developer tools (Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit, Intel® HPC Toolkit, or their component products) into Microsoft Visual Studio* 2022 (17.7 or higher) on offline systems with the Windows Performance Toolkit (Win11SDK_WindowsPerformanceToolkit) installed. This results in an incomplete integration. To work around the issue, either enable an Internet connection during Intel developer tools installation or uninstall the Windows Performance Toolkit before installing Intel developer tools, after Intel developer tools are installed, reinstall the Windows Performance Toolkit.
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RESOLVED Available November 21, 2023. With the 2024.0 release Intel containers for Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit and Intel® HPC Toolkit for Ubuntu 22.04 are currently not available. New builds are expected on the Intel Docker repositories in the coming days. All other distribution images are already available.
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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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Intel® oneAPI Toolkits 2022.1.3 and earlier and Intel® Parallel Studio XE (any version) do not support Microsoft Visual Studio 2022. On systems with Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 installed, Intel® oneAPI and Intel® Parallel Studio XE installers may fail during installation, upgrade, modification, or uninstallation. Refer to this article for more information.
Previous Releases
- Intel® oneAPI HPC Toolkit 2023
- Intel® oneAPI HPC Toolkit 2022
- Intel® oneAPI HPC Toolkit 2021
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