Hello,
I am glad to announce the availability of Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications 2016 R2 for Windows*. Please visithttps://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-opencl to download the version for your platform. For details check out Release Notes.
New Features
OpenCL 2.1 and SPIR-V support
o OpenCL 2.1 development environment with the experimental CPU-only runtime for OpenCL 2.1
o SPIR-V generation support with Code Builder Offline Compiler and Kernel Development Framework including textual representing of SPIR-V binaries
New features in Kernel Development Framework
o Host C++ code generator – generates full OpenCL application host C++ code for a given session.
o Lightweight "Run" option to execute the kernel and get immediate results. You can later run a full analysis on the kernel execution session.
o Output validation – assign reference to an output buffer or image object and get immediate results if the reference does or does not match the output variable.
o Command line interface – enables you to perform most of the tasks that are available through the IDE, including: capture a kernel execution from an OpenCL application, execute a kernel and view its results, view the kernel’s performance analysis results, and more.
o Advanced buffers and images viewer with pixel overlay presentation, show image as buffer options, compare mode and more
Beta2 release of Source and Assembly level GPU Kernel Debugging on Windows* operating system including bug fixes and improvements.
Latency analysis on 6th Generation Intel Core™Processors with Intel Iris™, Intel Iris Pro and HD Graphics.
Intel® SDK for OpenCL™Applications 2016 R2 includes all the features for OpenCL development for Windows* and Android* previously available in Intel® INDE OpenCL™Code Builder 2015 R2 and all features for Linux* development which available in Code Builder for Intel® Media Server Studio.
For a full list of features, refer to the Intel® SDK for OpenCL™Applications Developer Guide.