Intel releases oneAPI Toolkit, free, Fortran 2018

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Is this oneAPI Fortran compiler based on a different underlying technology than the previous Intel 19.1 compiler? Yesterday I was doing some testing and just happened to notice that the timings were much slower than what I had recorded 9 months ago when I had used the 19.1 compiler. After digging into it more carefully I found that indeed the test was now taking about 25% more time when compiled with the oneAPI compiler than with 19.1 – same code, same compiler options. This is just anecdotal at this point; I haven’t had the chance yet to see if broader testing shows a similar pattern. I routinely test for correctness, but a big hole in my testing is on checking performance.

Edit: Note that I am still using the “classic” ifort, not the beta ifx compiler based on llvm.

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No, the classic compiler is just a newer version of the 19.1 compiler. I’m sure the Intel team would be interested in your test case.

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I report the installation of the Intel Fortran compilers on a machine with Ubuntu 20.10:

$ wget https://apt.repos.intel.com/intel-gpg-keys/GPG-PUB-KEY-INTEL-SW-PRODUCTS.PUB
$ sudo apt-key add GPG-PUB-KEY-INTEL-SW-PRODUCTS.PUB
$ rm GPG-PUB-KEY-INTEL-SW-PRODUCTS.PUB
$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://apt.repos.intel.com/oneapi all main"
$ sudo apt update

As the whole intel-basekit package uses ~16 GB on disk, I have chosen to install only the Fortran compilers (download: 560 MB, on disk: ~1.5 GB):

$ sudo apt install intel-oneapi-compiler-fortran
$ source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh

The source command should be installed into the .bash_profile script if you don’t want to type it each time you open a terminal.

It’s done:

$ ifort --version
ifort (IFORT) 2021.2.0 20210228
Copyright (C) 1985-2021 Intel Corporation.  All rights reserved.

$ ifx --version
ifx (IFORT) 2021.2.0 Beta 20210317
Copyright (C) 1985-2021 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Thanks. The instructions above also work for Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS under WSL. My change point program runs about 5% faster with Intel Fortran on WSL/Ubuntu compared to Intel Fortran on Windows, using the -O2 option in each case.

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Surprising! It’s exactly the same compiler version?

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The Windows version is Intel(R) Fortran Intel(R) 64 Compiler Classic for applications running on Intel(R) 64, Version 2021.1 Build 20201112_000000, which is a later release date than the Linux ifort 20210228.

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Thank you for posting your experience here. I just installed ifort it on Microsoft WSL and it works flawlessly. On a side note, I only followed the instructions for installing ifort, but it seems like it also installs Intel MPI along with ifort. Is that because of Coarrays? Is there a way to install the MPI library separately without the Fortran compiler?

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Thanks @vmagnin! My old parallel cluster edition license expired recently so your summary was exactly what I needed. I also added the Intel MKL libraries with

$ sudo apt install intel-oneapi-mkl
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When compiling MPI code, ifort throws the following error:

error #7013: This module file was not generated by any release of this compiler.   [MPI]

I would appreciate anyone’s comment who knows what is going on. I have installed release 2021.2 ifort and MPI on Microsoft WSL

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Yes - and it is not full Intel MPI, just the libraries. You don’t get the MPI include files/modules with the compiler. As @ivanpribec mentions, the full Intel MPI can be installed separately, assuming you haven’t decided to just install all of the HPC Toolkit.

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Thanks Steve, is there a single command to install the entire HPC toolkit all at once?

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My guess is that your include path is pointing to some MPI modules other than those from Intel. Note also that Intel MPI is 64-bit only.

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Thanks again Steve. That does seem to be the issue (a local installation of MPICH exists which is included in the compilation process).

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Try to install the intel-oneapi-mpi-devel package if you are using apt on WSL. The intel-oneapi-mpi package installed with ifort seems to be only the runtime library.

Same holds for MKL, intel-oneapi-mkl is just the runtime, for development against MKL I usually have to install intel-oneapi-mkl-devel.

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I just found this page on the individual components in the oneAPI toolkits quite useful:
https://oneapi-src.github.io/oneapi-ci/

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I got

E: Unable to locate package intel-oneapi-compiler-fortran

I also tried apt install intel-hpckit with the same result. I also used apt-get instead of apt, and got the same result.

The repository is listed in /etc/apt/sources.list

I’m using SMP Debian 4.19.152-1 (according to uname -a)

Has it been taken down?

What should I try next?

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Hi @vsnyder, welcome to the Forum!

Coincidentally, I just tested this today in Ubuntu 20.10:

wget https://apt.repos.intel.com/intel-gpg-keys/GPG-PUB-KEY-INTEL-SW-PRODUCTS-2023.PUB
sudo apt-key add GPG-PUB-KEY-INTEL-SW-PRODUCTS-2023.PUB
rm GPG-PUB-KEY-INTEL-SW-PRODUCTS-2023.PUB
echo "deb https://apt.repos.intel.com/oneapi all main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oneAPI.list
sudo apt-get update
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
    sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    intel-oneapi-compiler-fortran \
    intel-oneapi-compiler-dpcpp-cpp-and-cpp-classic
source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh

And it works. Since intel-oneapi-compiler-fortran was not found, maybe you forgot to run apt update after adding the repository to sources.list?

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@certik @vsnyder
I found that information:

By default, on ubuntu 18.04 and newer the add-apt-repository will also update the package index if the repository public key is imported.
https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-add-apt-repository-in-ubuntu/

Sorry, that’s why I did not report using apt update, but I will edit my post to add it. The behavior seems different on your Debian.

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He was perfectly true. I omited installing the Base oneAPI toolkit. The HPC oneAPI installer complained a little bit, I ignored it and continued installing the HPC toolkit. The Visual Studio 2019 integration worked like a charm.

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Even better, I installed only the fortran compiler and the MKL library. Completely avoiding the bloated toolkits.

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