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| Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks - Release Notes |
| Version 3.0 |
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| System Requirements |
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| Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks (Intel(R) TBB) is available |
| commercially (see http://www.intel.com/software/products/threading) as a |
| binary distribution, and in open source, in both source and binary |
| forms (see http://threadingbuildingblocks.org). |
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| When built from source, Intel(R) TBB is intended to be highly portable |
| and so supports a wide variety of operating systems and platforms (see |
| http://threadingbuildingblocks.org for more details). |
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| Binary distributions, including commercial distributions, are validated |
| and officially supported for the hardware, software, operating systems |
| and compilers listed here. |
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| Hardware - Recommended |
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| Microsoft* Windows* Systems |
| Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor or Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor |
| or higher |
| Linux* Systems |
| Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor or Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor |
| or Intel(R) Itanium(R) processor or higher |
| Mac OS* X Systems |
| Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor or higher |
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| Hardware - Supported |
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| Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 processor family and higher |
| Intel(R) Itanium(R) processor family (Linux* systems only) |
| Non Intel(R) processors compatible with the above processors |
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| Software - Minimum Requirements |
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| Supported operating system (see below) |
| Supported compiler (see below) |
| Xcode* tool suite 3.1.2 or higher (Mac OS* X systems only) |
| Microsoft* Internet Explorer* 6.0, or other compatible web browser |
| Adobe(R) Reader(R)* 6.0 or higher |
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| Software - Recommended |
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| Intel(R) Parallel Studio |
| Intel(R) C++ Compiler 10.1 or higher |
| Intel(R) Thread Checker 3.1 or higher |
| Intel(R) Thread Profiler 3.1 or higher |
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| Software - Supported Operating Systems |
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| Microsoft* Windows* Systems |
| Microsoft* Windows* XP Professional |
| Microsoft* Windows* Server 2003 |
| Microsoft* Windows* Vista |
| Microsoft* Windows* Server 2008 |
| Microsoft* Windows* 7 |
| Linux* Systems |
| Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 4, 5 |
| (when using Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 4 with Intel(R) |
| Itanium(R) processors, operating system Update 2 or higher |
| is recommended) |
| Fedora* 10, 11, 12 |
| (not with Intel(R) Itanium(R) processors) |
| Asianux* 3.0 |
| Debian* GNU/Linux* 5.0 |
| Ubuntu* 9.04, 9.10 |
| SuSE* Linux* Enterprise Server (SLES) 10, 11 |
| Mac OS* X Systems |
| Mac OS* X 10.5.6 or higher |
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| Software - Supported Compilers |
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| Microsoft* Visual C++ 8.0 (Microsoft* Visual Studio* 2005, |
| Windows* systems only) |
| Microsoft* Visual C++ 9.0 (Microsoft* Visual Studio* 2008, |
| Windows* systems only) |
| Microsoft* Visual C++ 10.0 (Microsoft* Visual Studio* 2010, |
| Windows* systems only) |
| Intel(R) C++ Compiler 10.1 or higher |
| For each supported Linux* operating system, the standard gcc |
| version provided with that operating system is supported, |
| including gcc 3.4 through 4.4 |
| For each supported Mac OS* X operating system, the standard gcc |
| version provided with that operating system is supported, |
| including: 4.0.1 or higher (Xcode* tool suite 3.1.2 or higher) |
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| Known Issues |
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| Please note the following with respect to this particular release of |
| Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks. |
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| Library Issues |
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| - Unhandled exceptions in the user code executed in the context of |
| TBB algorithms or containers may cause segmentation faults when |
| Intel(R) C++ Compiler 10.x is used with glibc 2.3.2 to 2.3.4. |
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| - To allow more accurate results to be obtained with Intel(R) Thread |
| Checker or Intel(R) Thread Profiler, download the latest update |
| releases of these products before using them with Intel(R) |
| Threading Building Blocks. |
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| - If you are using Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks and OpenMP* |
| constructs mixed together in rapid succession in the same |
| program, and you are using Intel(R) compilers for your OpenMP* |
| code, set KMP_BLOCKTIME to a small value (e.g., 20 milliseconds) |
| to improve performance. This setting can also be made within |
| your OpenMP* code via the kmp_set_blocktime() library call. See |
| the Intel(R) compiler OpenMP* documentation for more details on |
| KMP_BLOCKTIME and kmp_set_blocktime(). |
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| - In general, non-debug ("release") builds of applications or |
| examples should link against the non-debug versions of the |
| Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks libraries, and debug builds |
| should link against the debug versions of these libraries. On |
| Windows* systems, compile with /MD and use Intel(R) Threading |
| Building Blocks release libraries, or compile with /MDd and use |
| debug libraries; not doing so may cause run-time failures. See |
| the Tutorial in the product "doc" sub-directory for more details |
| on debug vs. release libraries. |
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| - Installer doesn't accept non-commercial serial numbers on |
| Fedora* 11. To install the product on the system use license |
| file provided after registration of the serial number. |
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| - Intel(R) TBB 2.2 Update 1 fixed known bugs with exception handling |
| in concurrent_vector. For applications using both exceptions |
| and concurrent_vector, recompilation with TBB 2.2 Update 1 |
| or a newer version is recommended. |
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