Intel System Studio 2020 Update 1

- Extends Intel C++ Compiler support of C++ 17 and provides initial C++ 20 language standard support.
- Intel SoC Watch adds support for Intel platform code named Comet Lake and Intel platform code named Ice Lake.
- Renames Intel VTune Amplifier to Intel VTune Profiler starting with version 2020.
- Intel VTune Profiler:
. Adds new GPU Offload analysis to explore and correlate code execution across CPUs and GPUs, and identify a kernel of interest for GPU-bound applications to be explored further with GPU Compute/Media Hotspots analysis.
. Updates GPU Compute/Media Hotspots analysis with options for GPU in-kernel analysis.
. Extends command line hotspots report scope to support GPU analysis types.
. Improves dynamic instruction count collection available as part of the GPU Compute/Media Hotspots analysis to provide better accuracy for basic block assembly analysis.
. Updates System Overview analysis to serve as an entry point to platform analysis assessing system (IO, accelerators and CPU) performance and providing guidance for further analysis steps, and adds New Hardware Tracing mode.
. Adds new Throttling analysis to identify causes for system throttling, like exceeding safe thermal or power limits.
. Extends Energy analysis options to monitor processor package energy consumption over time and identify how it correlates with CPU throttling.
. Extends containerization support with an option to install and run the VTune Profiler in a Docker container and profile targets both inside the same container as well as outside the container.
- Adds Max and Bound Bandwidth metrics to Application Performance Snapshot to better estimate the efficiency of the DRAM, MCDRAM, Persistent Memory and Intel Omni-Path usage.
- Platform Profiler:
. Extends Overview and Memory views with new metrics for analyzing Non Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) behavior.
. Implements user authentication and authorization to enable access control to users’ data.
. Adds a new option for users to choose or modify the location of Platform Profiler data files.
- Updates Intel System Debugger to a new Eclipse-integrated source-level debugger, providing reworked support for platform registers, improved support for PCI configuration space, better debug information, and a Python-based scripting console.
- Adds Intel System Debugger Target Indicator, a cross-platform tool that indicates the status of a DCI debug connection to a target platform.
- Adds Intel System Debugger support for:
. 10th Generation Intel Core Processor (Ice Lake) / Ice Lake PCH-LP
. 10th Generation Intel Core Processor (Comet Lake) / Comet Lake PCH-LP
. 10th Generation Intel Core Processor (Amber Lake Y 4+2) / Sunrise Point PCH-LP
. Intel Xeon Processor (Cascade Lake) / Lewisburg PCH
- OpenCL API Debugger and Kernel Development Framework functionality is deprecated in this release. Intel VTune Profiler can be configured to see OpenCL API calls. Intercept Layer for OpenCL Applications can be used for replacement of OpenCL API Debugger functionality.
- Adds OpenCL tools support for:
. 10th Generation Intel Core Processor named Ice Lake
. Microsoft Visual Studio 2019
. CentOS 8
. Adds OpenCL tools offline compiler support for generation of optimized ELF binary file from SPIR-V file
. Bug fixes and security updates
- To support building OpenVINO applications, Intel System Studio 2019 provides instructions for the user to create a custom Docker container that contains OpenVINO tools and libraries. Intel System Studio 2020 includes a Docker platform to build OpenVINO projects as a user-selectable option. This Docker platform contains OpenVINO 2019 R3.1 release.
- Deprecates Ubuntu 16.04 Docker files for remote IoT targets. Users are recommended to start with Ubuntu 18.04.
- Removes MRAA/UPM binaries and target update capability from IoT Connection Tools since they are now distributed by the Eclipse Foundation. However, the Sensor Explorer feature remains functional.
- Updates IoT and Cloud code samples. Removes IoT code samples that use sensors from discontinued developer kits.
- Supports latest IoT developer kits, including accelerator card release updates to the IEI AIoT Tank Developer Kit.
- Updates base Eclipse IDE to Eclipse IDE 2019-09.
- Updates JDK to 11.0.5 which includes CVE fixes.

- Intel System Studio 2020 Update 1 includes functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.
- Updates base Eclipse IDE to Eclipse IDE 2019-12 and includes functional and security updates.
- Improves Yocto Project documentation.
- Intel Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL):
. Improves BLAS GEMM3M performance on Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel AVX2) and Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel AVX-512) architectures.
. Improves performance of LAPACK {D,S}GESDD for case jobz='N'.
. Introduces ScaLAPACK distributed nonsymmetric eigensolver functionality (P?GEEVX) for computing eigenvalues and optionally eigenvectors for a general nonsymmetric matrix.
. Improves performance for FFTs with MKL TBB threading layer on CPUs.
. Introduces Graph functionality as a preview feature that supports the sparse linear algebra operations and semirings used in PageRank and Triangle Count algorithms.
- Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP):
. Extends Intel IPP Image Processing ippsFIRSparse_32fc functions optimizations for Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel AVX2) and Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel AVX-512).
. Optimizes Intel IPP Image Processing Resize 8u functions for 10th Generation Intel Core Processor and ippsAddProduct_32fc for Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel AVX2) and Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel AVX-512).
. Introduces Intel IPP Cryptography RSA multi-buffer cipher API to process up to 8 messages simultaneously. The API is optimized for 10th Generation Intel Core processor family with performance improvement up to 6x for decryption and up to 4x for encryption compared to the RSA classic single-buffer API.
- Intel Advisor:
. Advisor Python API uses Python 3.
. Adds First Bottleneck visualization for Integrated Roofline chart; and integrates Roofline single kernel view and guidance.
- Intel SoC Watch:
. Adds (user opt-in) collection of SoC Watch usage analytics.
. Adds reporting residency in lowest power sleep state, SLP_S0 (s0i3/Modern Standby).
. Adds reporting blocking reasons (IP state conditions) that may be preventing entry to lowest power sleep state, SLP_S0 (s0i3/Modern Standby).
. Enhances SoC Watch driver security by limiting access to only registers or memory required to collect platform power and performance information.
- Intel VTune Profiler:
. Adds Microarchitecture Exploration analysis support on Intel processors codenamed Icelake.
. Extends GPU Compute/Media Hotspots analysis in the Dynamic Instruction Count mode to include SIMD utilization metrics at the kernel and instruction level, which help identify instructions in the OpenCL kernel that utilize SIMD poorly.
. Adds a deeper GPU utilization analysis in Application Performance Snapshot (APS) and the HPC Performance Characterization analysis. The GPU utilization analysis now includes GPU time, GPU IPC, GPU utilization, and % of stalled and idle execution units.
. VTune Profiler automatically selects the latest libstdc++ available in runtime to satisfy the GPU analysis requirements on Linux systems.
. Extends CPU/FPGA Interaction analysis to process data sources collected either with AOCL Profiler (new mode) or via OpenCL Profiling API (legacy mode). Specify the name of your application target and its parameters directly in the WHAT pane.
. Extends the Hardware Tracing mode in the System Overview analysis to include new metrics to make the analysis more kernel-aware. The CPU Time metric has been split to User Time and Kernel Time metrics to show the number of kernel mode switches and their frequency (switches per second). OS Kernel Activity and OS Scheduling metrics identify anomaly issues caused by unexpected kernel activity or preemptions
. Adds a Module Entry Point grouping level to the System Overview viewpoint to display data collected in the Hardware Tracing mode. The grouping shifts the focus to precise CPU time spent within system calls, interrupts, or within a runtime library API.

Intel System Studio 2020 Update 1 System Requirements

Supported Host Operating Systems
- Microsoft Windows 10
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2019

Supported Target Operating Systems
- Microsoft Windows 10 (PC & Embedded)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2019

Supported Target Hardware Platforms
- Development platform based on the Intel Atom processor Z5xx, N4xx, N5xx, D5xx, E6xx, N2xxx, D2xxx, E3xxx,Z2xxx, Z3xxx, C2xxx, or Intel Atom processor CE4xxx, CE53xx and the Intel Puma 6 Media Gateway
- Intel Atom Processors X Series Cxxx,Exxx,Zxxx
- Intel Core processors based on a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th,8thor 10thgeneration
- Intel Xeon processors based on 2nd, 3rd4th, 5th, 6thor7thgeneration
- Intel Xeon Scalable processors series


Microsoft Visual Studio integration
To use the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment or command-line tools to build IA-32 or Intel 64 architecture applications, one of:

- Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 ProfessionalEdition (or higher edition) with 'Desktop development with C++' component installed
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Professional Edition (or higher edition) with 'Desktop development with C++' component installed