This document provides a general summary of new features and important notes about the Intelｮ IPP library software product.
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For more information on new features in Intelｮ IPP 7.1, please see What's new in Intelｮ IPP 7.1.
Please see Intelｮ IPP 7.1 System Requirements for hardware, operating systems, compilers, and additional software required to use this library.
For more information please see IntelｮIntelｮ IPP 7.1 Deprecated Features
The core Intelｮ Integrated Performance Primitives (Intelｮ IPP) v7.1 for Microsoft* Windows* consists of two installation packages:
and the following optional add-on packages:
The core Intelｮ Integrated Performance Primitives (Intelｮ IPP) v7.1 for Linux* consists of two installation packages:
and the following optional add-on packages:
There is no standalone installation of the Intelｮ IPP v7.1 for Mac OS X*. The Intelｮ IPP 7.1 for Mac OS X is distributed as part of the Intelｮ Composer XE and Intelｮ C++ Composer XE product suites.
Many Intelｮ IPP functions are threaded internally. This means that the internal implementation of the functions uses OpenMP to automatically divide work among several threads when you use dynamic linking, or when you link with the multithreaded static versions of the libraries. A list of these functions can be found in your installation's documentation directory as ThreadedFunctionsList.txt.
Threading at the application level is better for performance. Since the parallelism is managed at a higher level than the primitives this may also be referred to as "external" threading.
The Intelｮ IPP 7.1 installer contains the dynamic libraries (which are still threaded) and the single threaded static libraries. However, the multithreaded static libraries are now a separate download. After they are installed your multithreaded statically linked code will continue to work with internal threading.
Intelｮ IPP for cryptography is a separate installation package that contains the binaries and header files needed to utilize the functions contained in the Intelｮ IPP cryptography domain. It is an add-on to the Intelｮ IPP library and, therefore, requires that the core Intelｮ IPP already be installed on your system. You must first install the standalone Intelｮ IPP, Intelｮ Cluster Studio XE, Intelｮ C++ Studio XE, Intelｮ Composer XE, Intelｮ Parallel Composer, Intelｮ Parallel Studio, or the Intelｮ Parallel Studio XE product before installing the respective Intelｮ IPP for cryptography package. Please note: the version of Intelｮ& IPP installed by the Intelｮ Parallel suites may not always match the latest (default) version of Intelｮ IPP for cryptography.
To obtain Intelｮ IPP for cryptography, which is distributed separately from the main Intelｮ IPP, please review this knowledge base article: Where do I download the Intelｮ IPP for Cryptography?.
Please note: the process of deprecating the ippGEN domain begins in Intelｮ IPP 7.1. For more info please see For more information please see http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-ipp-71-deprecated-features/.
In order to decrease the size of the Intelｮ IPP installation package, the SPIRAL subset (ippGEN) of the signal processing domain is distributed as a separate library add-on. Go to the Intel Registration Center to download the ippGEN component of the Intelｮ IPP.
SPIRAL for Intelｮ IPP is a separate installation package that contains the binaries and header files needed to utilize the functions contained in the ippGEN domain. It is an add-on to the Intelｮ IPP and, therefore, requires that the core Intelｮ IPP be already installed on your system. You must first install the standalone Intelｮ IPP, Intelｮ Cluster Studio XE, Intelｮ C++ Studio XE, Intelｮ Composer XE, Intelｮ Parallel Composer, Intelｮ Parallel Studio, or the Intelｮ Parallel Studio XE product before installing the respective SPIRAL add-on library.
The ippGEN package is an adjunct to the ippSP (Signal Processing) domain. It contains signal processing functions that have been optimized for non-ordinary size data sets, primarily in the class of FFT functions. If you have not used these "ippg" functions in the past it is likely that you do not need to download and install this add-on library. However, there is no harm to installing this add-on with the core Intelｮ IPP.
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