Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2016 Beta Release Notes
The What's New pages describe features and changes since the last release.The Release Notes include important information, such as:pre-requisites,software compatibility,installation instructions,...
View ArticleHow to transfer reducer_list_append to MIC?
Hi I am new to cilk plus and MIC. I had this topic in MIC forum as well I have a problem where I need to offload/parallel process some data, append to a list B , and return to the host. The host will...
View ArticleUsing Cilk reducer inside Cilker shared function
Hi I am trying to offload some parallel work to MIC using _Cilk_Shared and _Cilk_offload. I declare a Cilk shared function:_Cilk_shared void somefun(int count) In main I call this function using...
View Articlechanges in CEAN implications re vectorization in next release?
I note that premier.intel.com is open for submissions for the first time in months, so I submitted a ticket. It still looks like setting up premier for beta 16 has not been completed, as the form...
View ArticleCilkplus port to Raspberry Pi 2B
I compiled the new release of gcc-5.1 with the Cilkplus parallel processing extensions and runtime library for ARMv7 architecture on the Raspberry Pi 2B single board computer. Two changes were...
View Articlegcc 5.1 -mfpmath=387 Floating point exception
It appears that the compiler option -mfpmath=387 immediately causes floating point exceptions on Intel architecture processors in cilk_spawn routines compiled with gcc-5.1 cilk. This seems to be a...
View ArticleHow is the user worker thread returned when returning from cilk runtime?
HiIn the Binary Interface Specification, it says when the last user thread calls __cilkrts_leave_frame() with a __cilkrts_stack_frame which has CILK_FRAME_LAST set in the flags field, the runtime will...
View ArticleWhy calculation of fibonacci with cilk took longer?
I'm running on Linux (ubuntu) Intel I7 1600Mhz, with 4 cores. I'm using Intel compiler V14 I measured the time it tooks to calculate fibonacci with or without cilk: int fib(int n) { if (n < 2) {...
View ArticleWhy calculation of fibonacci with cilk took longer?
I'm running on Linux (ubuntu) Intel I7 1600Mhz, with 4 cores. I'm using Intel compiler V14 I measured the time it tooks to calculate fibonacci with or without cilk: int fib(int n) { if (n < 2) {...
View ArticleProblem in Cilkview and Cilkscreen 4225
Hello,I am new in Cilk plus. I am facing problem in Cilkview and Cilkscreen 4225. Please help/ guide me ...I am working on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with GCC 4.9.2. I install Intel Cilk Plus SDK by synaptic...
View ArticleCilkview Cilkscreen Centos 7
Issues with Cilktools. I have compiled and installed gcc 4.9 and gcc 5.2 on Centos 7 and installed them. The fib.c test code runs fine for both gcc's. However when I attempt to use the cilktools...
View ArticleCilkview Cilkscreen Centos 7
Issues with Cilktools. I have compiled and installed gcc 4.9 and gcc 5.2 on Centos 7 and installed them. The fib.c test code runs fine for both gcc's. However when I attempt to use the cilktools...
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why does cilk_spawn give me such bad performance?
I wrote a simple benchmark that fills two vectors with a sequence of randomly computed numbers. I'm comparing tbb, cilk, and std::async. The results I get are (milliseconds)time cilk: 3725 time async:...
View ArticleIntel C++ Compiler 16.0 is now available in Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016
The new version Intel C++ Compiler 16.0 is now available in Intel Parallel Studio XE 2016 that has launched early this week. If your support license is current you can download and install this at no...
View Articlecilkpub with icc 16.0.0
There's a minor compile-time problem with cilkpub when compiling with icc 16.0.0. Here's the compile-time error:$ icpc -DCILKPUB_DETRED_DBG_LEVEL=0 -Wall -g -O3 -I../include_dev -I../include...
View ArticleQ about fibonacci example
//From the examples website: https://www.cilkplus.org/download#block-views-code-samples-block-1 int fib(int n) { if (n < 2) return n; int x = cilk_spawn fib(n-1); int y = fib(n-2); cilk_sync; return...
View ArticleCilk SDK Tools & GCC 5 Compatibility
A previous post by an Intel representative mentions:Quote:Hansang Bae (Intel) wrote:GCC does not support intrinsic functions that are required to instrument the code as of 4.9, so you will have to use...
View Articlestatus of cilkplus in gcc?
What's going on with cilkplus in gcc? Is it still being actively used and developed? This link says it's been "supported" for some time: https://www.cilkplus.org/which-license#gcc-development.Yet it...
View Articlecilkscreen doesn't like recent kernels
Cilkscreen doesn't work on Fedora 22. I suspect that the Pin tool doesn't like the 4.2 kernel.$ ~/cilkscreen/cilktools-linux-004225/bin/cilkscreen -- /usr/bin/cat E:4.2 is not a supported linux release...
View ArticleImages missing from website
This page:https://www.cilkplus.org/tutorial-cilk-plus-keywordshas diagrams on it which sound like they would be very helpful, but they don't display.Being unable to find a website feedback address, I...
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