WHAT'S NEW IN INTEL SYSTEM STUDIO 2020 - FOR SYSTEM & IOT DEVELOPERS: ACCELERATE YOUR PATH FROM PROTOTYPE TO PRODUCT
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What’s New In Intel® System Studio 2020 For System & IoT Developers: Accelerate Your Path from Prototype to Product Jeffrey Reinemann, Technical Consulting Engineer, Intel
What’s Inside Intel® System Studio 2020
DEBUG ANALYZE BUILD
C/C++ Compilers Libraries
Application Debug & Power & Vectorization, Image, Signal, Math,
& System Trace Performance Memory & OpenCL™ Tools Threading, Data Analytics,
Threading IoT Connection Tools
UEFI*3 JTAG,
JTAG over USB System & Application Code Running on Linux*2, Windows*, or Android*
Agent
Integrated Development Environment (IDE):
Eclipse* Standard, Microsoft Visual Studio* Integration
Intel® Architecture-Based Platforms
Latest version is 2020
2Linux, Embedded Linux*, Wind River* Linux*, Yocto* Project
3UEFI: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
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What’s New in Intel® System Studio 2020
Innovate System & IoT Applications using a Single, Comprehensive Tool Suite
Boost Performance & Power Efficiency
▪ Accelerate path from prototype to production with the latest processor support.
▪ Advanced performance insights to detect issues and get guidance for performance improvements.
▪ Increased performance with the ability to harness the power of the latest Intel® platforms.
Accelerate Development of Smart Connected Devices
▪ Improved remote development with ability to build projects as a user-selectable option,
eliminating the need for a custom Docker* container to build IoT computer vision/deep learning
inference apps.
▪ Improved ease of use with code wizards and samples to speed up IoT project development.
▪ Enhanced standards support with coverage for C++17 and C++20.
Strengthen System Reliability
▪ Improved debug with a newly designed Eclipse*-integrated source-level debugger.
▪ Easily identify target and connection type with the new target indicator utility.
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What’s New for Intel® System Debugger 2020
Enhance System Reliability & Accelerate Development
New Processor Support
▪ 10th Gen Intel® Core™ processors
(formerly Ice Lake, Comet Lake, Amber Lake)
▪ 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® processors
(formerly Cascade Lake)
Strengthen System Reliability
▪ Increased developer efficiency with newly
designed Eclipse*-integrated source-level
debugger
▪ Easily identify targets and connection types
with the new target indicator utility, a cross-
platform utility that indicates the status of an
Intel® Direct Connect Interface (Intel® DCI)
debug connection to a target platform
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4What’s New for Intel® VTune™ Profiler 2020
Analyze & Tune Application Performance
New Production Features
Production
▪ Platform Profiler—faster, more useful display of system metrics Features
▪ Design & optimize for Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory
▪ I/O analysis—enriched with PCIe device metrics
▪ Application Performance Snapshot—diagnose communication patterns, profile more ranks
▪ Microarchitecture analysis—easier, newest processors (e.g. Cascade Lake, …)
▪ OpenCL* analysis—inline filter, intermediate language, instruction count
▪ Linux*—extensive additional use of Perf enables analysis without adding drivers
▪ Performance Analysis Cookbooks—recipes for common analysis techniques
New Preview and Experimental Features
Preview
▪ Process Thread Affinity Observability (preview) Features
▪ Fabric Profiler—diagnose communication bottlenecks (preview)
▪ Lustre Parallel File I/O Analysis (experimental)
▪ Intel® Processor Trace—very short anomaly detection (experimental)
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5Meet Energy & Thermal Constraints, Optimize Battery Life
with Energy Analysis
Energy Analysis to fit your workflow
▪ Quickly collect and analyze detailed power &
thermal data with a lightweight command line
interface in Intel® SoC Watch
▪ Fix power and thermal inefficiencies by
measuring processor (CPU) C, P, S-states, SoC
temperature and more
What’s New in 2020 Release (Highlights)
▪ Easier import and visualization of energy data
with Intel® VTune™ Profiler
▪ Automatically put the system into suspend
state during data collection
▪ Support latest Intel® processors, and
operating systems
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6What’s New for Intel® Advisor 2020
Optimize Vectorization, Prototype Threading, Create & Analyze Flow Graphs
Enhanced Roofline Analysis
▪ Compare optimization strategies by
visualizing multiple results in a single chart
▪ Loop specific actionable optimization
recommendations
▪ Pinpoint location of performance bottlenecks
AVX-512 VNNI Support
▪ Identify which loops/functions use AVX-
512 Vector Neural Network instructions
Support for additional Operating Systems
and Microsoft* Visual Studio* 2019
Cookbooks: recipes to solve common
problems
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7What’s New for Intel® C++ Compiler 19.1
Full C++17 Standard feature support and initial C++20
▪ Enjoy improvements to lambda and constant expression support
▪ Improved GNU C++ and Microsoft C++ compiler compatibility
▪ C++20 features consteval and constexpr virtual functions useful to call functions at compile or
runtime to produce a constant
Standards-driven parallelization for C++ developers
▪ Full OpenMP 4.5 and partial OpenMP 5.0
▪ Modernize your code by using the latest parallelization specifications
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8What’s New for Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives 2020
Processor-optimized functions to accelerate image, signal, data processing &
cryptography computation tasks
Signal Processing
▪ Select algorithms optimized for Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (i.e.
Pattern matching, Top K selection)
▪ Added new ippsMaxAbsIndx and ippsMinAbsIndx algorithms supporting
Image Domain
32f/64f extensions
Cryptography Algorithms
▪ RSA & AES were optimized for performance on 10th Gen Intel® Core™
processors (formerly Ice Lake) Signal Domain
▪ New RSA multi-buffer API batch for encryption/decryption
▪ One dynamic library with internal dispatcher replaced a set of small dynamic
libraries
▪ Enhanced constant execution time for all security sensitive code
Data Domain
Data Compression
▪ ZFP 0.5.4 were accelerated with Intel® IPP for AVX-512 instruction set
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9What’s New for Intel® Math Kernel Library 2020 (1 of 2)
Implement fast, scalable code
BLAS
▪ Improved performance of small to medium size iGEMM when C-offset is non-zero on Intel®
Advanced Vector Instructions 2 (Intel® AVX2) and Intel® Advanced Vector Instructions 512 (Intel®
AVX-512) architecture sets
▪ Improved SGEMM performance for TN case for small N
▪ Enabled TBB threading for GEMM_S8U8S32 and GEMM_S16S16S32
▪ Added 8-bit/16-bit iGEMM optimizations for Intel® AVX and SSE4.2 architecture sets
▪ Addressed GEMM_S8U9S32 and SGEMM_S16S16S32 accuracy issues on Intel® AVX2 and Intel®
AVX-512 architectures when the Alpha scale factor is not an integer value
ScaLAPACK
▪ Introduced P{D,S}TREVC functions for computing some or all of the right and/or left eigenvectors
of a real upper quasi-triangular matrix
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10What’s New for Intel® Math Kernel Library 2020 (2 of 2)
Implement fast, scalable code
Random number generators (RNGs)
▪ Introduced advanced SkipAhead method for random number generators in the
MRG32k3a/Philox4x32-10/ARS-5 basic random number generator
▪ Improved performance of ARS-5 basic random number generator for Intel® AVX-512 systems
Summary statistics
▪ Improved performance of fast calculation method for raw/central moments/sums, variance-
covariance/correlation/cross-product matrix on Intel® AVX2 and Intel® AVX-512 architecture sets
Library Engineering
▪ Introduced module file support
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11Get the Benefits of Advanced Threading
with Intel® Threading Building Blocks
Use Threading Techniques to Leverage Multicore Performance for C++
▪ Parallelize computationally intensive work across CPUs—deliver higher-level & simpler solutions
using C++
▪ Most feature-rich & comprehensive solution for parallel programming
▪ Highly portable, composable, affordable, approachable, future-proof scalability
What’s New in 2020 Release
▪ Extended task_arena interface to simplify development of NUMA-aware applications specifically
enabling composable scalable performance within
▪ Intel® Threading Building Blocks 2020 has been modernized to align with C++11 standard and to
support latest language features
▪ Added a possibility to suspend task execution at a specific point and resume it later thus reducing
the code complexity when integrating I/O threads in compute intensive applications
Learn More: software.intel.com/intel-tbb
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12Accelerate Machine Learning & Analytics
with Intel® Data Analytics Acceleration Library (Intel® DAAL)
Boost Machine Learning & Data Analytics Performance What’s New
▪ Helps applications deliver better predictions faster New Algorithms
▪ Optimizes data ingestion & algorithmic compute together ▪ High performance Multiclass Adaboost, widely-
for highest performance used classification algorithm
▪ Supports offline, streaming & distributed usage models to ▪ Extended Gradient Boosting Functionality
meet a range of application needs provides probabilistic classification and variable
▪ Split analytics workloads between edge devices and cloud importance
to optimize overall application throughput ▪ Extended Decision Tree Functionality provides
probabilistic classification and weighted data
Pre-processing Transformation Analysis Modeling Validation Decision Making
Decompression, Aggregation, Summary Machine Learning (Training) Hypothesis Testing Forecasting
Filtering, Dimension Reduction Statistics Parameter Estimation Model Errors Decision Trees, etc.
Normalization Clustering, etc. Simulation
Learn More: software.intel.com/daal
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13What’s New for OpenCL™ Tools 2020
▪ Adds support for Microsoft* Visual Studio 2019 and CentOS* 8
▪ Adds support of 10th Gen Intel® Core™ Processor (formerly Ice Lake)
▪ Enhanced Intel® VTune™ Profiler configuration options to visualize OpenCL™ API calls1.
To debug specific API calls that are identified through VTune, the stand-alone
Intercept Layer for OpenCL™ Applications can be used.
▪ Compile offline easier with new support from SPIR-V allowing user to generate an
optimized binary for CPU or GPU ahead of time, thus improving final application
runtime.
1Thesenew features replace the deprecated API debugger and Kernel Development Framework features in
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OpenCL™ Tools 2020. 14What’s New for IoT Connection Tools
Fast IoT Application Development
The IoT Connection Tools are a group of libraries and cloud connectors that
are important for IoT solution developers.
• Docker* platform to build Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit
projects as a user-selectable option, eliminating the need for a custom
Things
Docker container to build IoT computer vision applications.
• MRAA/UPM sensor libraries are now Eclipse* Foundation projects and the
Intel System Studio IDE keeps a seamless developer experience for Edge
providing the needed sensor information.
• New IoT and cloud code samples, and an IoT reference implementation,
enhance IoT project creation.
Network
• Fast prototyping and deployment of IoT solutions with support for the
latest IoT Developer Kits.
• Simplified IoT Project and Linux* Platform Project creation from a sample
Cloud
by streamlining the user controls and interactions in the IDE.
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15Summary: Intel® System Studio 2020
Single, comprehensive suite of development, analysis & debug tools:
▪ Take advantage of the power of the latest Intel platforms to improve performance &
stability of system & IoT solutions.
▪ Support for the latest Intel processors, platform capabilities & operating systems.
▪ Many new features focused on improving usability & productivity.
▪ Online cookbook recipes provide step-by-step examples of how to use some of the
analysis tools in various, relevant scenarios.
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16Resources at your fingertips
Download Intel® System Studio
▪ https://software.intel.com/en-us/system-studio/
Access Developer Resources
▪ Product site
▪ Get Started/Documentation
▪ Code Samples/Training
▪ Tech.Decoded webinars, how-to videos/articles
▪ Expert Community Support Forum
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17Notices & Disclaimers
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