RESOURCES (including downloads)

Here are links to the available downloads.

An introductory explanation can be found in "Knights Corner: Open source software stack."

Source Code: MPSS downloads
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The **LATEST** MPSS release KNC_gold_update_2-2.1.5889-14 (dated March 7 2013) is now available here:http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-manycore-platform-softwar...

This document can be navigated to from http://software.intel.com/mic-developer and going to 'Tools'.    From now onwards we will maintain that document as the 'go-to' place for the MPSS.

The last 1-2 archived versions of the MPSS can be found here: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-manycore-platform-software-stack-mpss-archive

Older information follows....

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Previous "Gold" MPSS 2.1 Initial Release, version .4346-16  / Nov 2, 2012

These KNC_version_OS.gz downloads correspond to the particular build for the given operating systems while the readme.txt and install.txt files apply to all.

More information and instructions are in readme.txt, releaseNotes.txt and install.txt.

• readme-en.txt 79K English, (includes installation instructions)
• releaseNotes.txt, English, 46K
• license.txt, license agreement, 31KB
• KNC_gold-2.1.4346-16-rhel-6.0.gz, 673M
• KNC_gold-2.1.4346-16-rhel-6.1.gz, 673M
• KNC_gold-2.1.4346-16-rhel-6.2.gz, 679M
• KNC_gold-2.1.4346-16-rhel-6.3.gz, 680M
• KNC_gold-2.1.4346-16-suse-11.1.gz, 668M
• KNC_gold-2.1.4346-16-suse-11.2.gz, 668M
• readme-de.txt, German release notes, 105KB
• readme-es.txt, Spanish release notes, 103KB
• readme-fr.txt, French release notes, 105KB
• readme-it.txt, Italian, 105KB
• readme-ja.txt, Japanese, 126KB
• readme-ko.txt, Korean, 109KB
• readme-zh-CN.txt. Chinese (Simplified), China 89KB
• readme-zh-TW.txt, Chinese (Traditional), Taiwan 90KB

Please note: the MPSS download files marked '.gz' should end in '.gz' when downloaded; most browsers leave the extension alone, but Windows Explorer may rename the file. If this affects you, we recommend renaming the file to the proper extension after downloading.

Source code: gdb downloads

The gdb download is now included in the MPSS download above, so it is no longer needed as a separate download.

Knights Corner micro-architecture related information: Documents

An introductory explanation can be found in "Knights Corner micro-architecture support."

• Compiler Methodology for Intel® MIC Architecture, the online definite guide to using Intel Compilers for Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors
• Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor Instruction Set Reference Manual, 2.2M (updated September 7, 2012)
• ABI document System V Application Binary Interface K1OM Architecture Processor Supplement, 500K
• Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor Performance Monitoring Units, 144K (updated July 10, 2012)