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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi All DiFX users,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I am a technical person in Intel Australia and I do a reasonable amount in the HPC market here. I have been lurking on this list for a while, due to my involvement
in some of the local and worldwide projects, so I thought this was a good reason for me to chime in.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">IPP does not require a runtime license, you only need a license for the number of developers. E.g. You have 3 people working on a project on a 128 node cluster,
you only need 3 licenses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If you are running someone else’s binary, you don’t need a license at all, the IPP installation has a runtime distributable package that you can ship with the
binaries. As far as the compiler license issue you are seeing you may have a node locked license and may need the license moved to another host ID (let me know if this is the case). You can also get floating licenses if you have a number of developers but
not all are active at the same time which is typical for an academic institution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">From the EULA: "Redistributables" (if any) are the files listed in the following text files that may be included in the Materials for the applicable Intel Software
Development Product: clredist.txt, credist.txt, fredist.txt, redist.txt, and redist-rt.txt.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">As you say, IPP is typically included as part of a bundle with the compilers “Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2016” which has a lot of other useful tools for performance
optimization included and I think you can get pretty generous Academic licenses. I haven’t been in the Software Group for a little while so I can’t comment on exact pricing. But an Australian reseller website linked me to this page.
<a href="http://softwarestore.ispfulfillment.com/Store/Product.aspx?skupart=I23SD8">
http://softwarestore.ispfulfillment.com/Store/Product.aspx?skupart=I23SD8</a> where a $129 renewal or $249 new price was given (not sure if this is A$ or US$ but you get the idea).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If you need some introductions to the Intel software tools people (from your email it looks like you may be in NZ?) I am happy to help out or indeed for people
in other regions I can find the appropriate contacts in your region.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">IPP is a heavily optimized library and gets the full work over when we introduce a new architecture and/or new instructions such as AVX/AVX2/AVX512(KNC/KNL).
This is the easiest way to get the performance out of the new systems when we release them which is important when you read the next paragraph.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">We are also really close to shipping developer systems for the next generation Intel Xeon Phi processor(Knights Landing KNL).
<a href="http://dap.xeonphi.com/">http://dap.xeonphi.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I’m very interested to see some of you DiFX users on this platforms to see how the code performs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If you would like more information, again, let me know where you are and I can find the right people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Regards, Peter Kerney.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Difx-users [mailto:difx-users-bounces@listmgr.nrao.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Stuart Weston<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 6, 2016 3:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> difx-users@listmgr.nrao.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Difx-users] IPP Licensing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just wondering what people do for licensing IPP on a cluster/blade server ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have two multi cpu/core servers and my IPP V8 key worked fine on those. But it is not working for a node in a blade server ? Also finding how to get another "free" academic license for the old version V8 on the Intel website is not very
intuitive :-( It's quite happy giving me a new license for the latest full studio version which includes IPP V9.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">More general any plans to move DiFX away from IPP ? I am no expert so not sure what else is available or could be used in its stead.<o:p></o:p></p>
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