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Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks - Release Notes Version 4.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ System Requirements ------------------- Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks (Intel(R) TBB) is available commercially (see http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-tbb) as a binary distribution, and in open source, in both source and binary forms (see http://threadingbuildingblocks.org). 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). Binary distributions, including commercial distributions, are validated and officially supported for the hardware, software, operating systems and compilers listed here. Hardware - Recommended 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 higher Mac OS* X Systems Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor or higher Hardware - Supported Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 processor family and higher Non Intel(R) processors compatible with the above processors Software - Minimum Requirements Supported operating system (see below) Supported compiler (see below) Adobe(R) Reader(R)* 7.0 or higher Software - Recommended Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE 2011 and higher Intel(R) Parallel Studio 2011 and higher Software - Supported Operating Systems Microsoft* Windows* Systems Microsoft* Windows* 7 Microsoft* Windows* Server 2008 Microsoft* Windows* Vista Microsoft* Windows* XP Professional Microsoft* Windows* Server 2003 (deprecated) Linux* Systems Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 6, 5, 4 (deprecated) Fedora* 15 Asianux* 4.0, 3.0 Debian* GNU/Linux* 6.0 Ubuntu* 11.04, 10.04 LTS SuSE* Linux* Enterprise Server 10, 11SP1 Mac OS* X Systems Mac OS* X 10.6.7 or higher Software - Supported Compilers Intel(R) C++ Composer XE 2011 and higher Intel(R) C++ Compiler 11.1 Microsoft* Visual C++ 10.0 (Microsoft* Visual Studio* 2010, Windows* systems only) Microsoft* Visual C++ 9.0 (Microsoft* Visual Studio* 2008, Windows* systems only) Microsoft* Visual C++ 8.0 (Microsoft* Visual Studio* 2005, Windows* systems only, deprecated) For each supported Linux* operating system, the standard gcc version provided with that operating system is supported, including gcc 3.4 through 4.6 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 3.2.5 or higher) Known Issues ------------ Please note the following with respect to this particular release of Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks. Library Issues - If an application uses static version of MSVCRT libraries or uses TBB DLL built with static MSVCRT (vc_mt variant), and throws an exception from a functor passed to task_group::run_and_wait(), the exception will not be intercepted by TBB and will not result in cancellation of the task_group. For a workaround, catch the exception in the functor and explicitly cancel the task_group. - 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(). - 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Intel, Xeon and Pentium are registered trademarks or trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. |