Downloading The Intel® Implicit SPMD Program Compiler

The Intel® Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (Intel® ISPC) is available in both source and binary form.

Here are the available ISPC packages:

  • ISPC binary and runtime for Windows x86_64
  • ISPC binary and runtime for macOS x86_64
  • ISPC binary and runtime for macOS arm64
  • ISPC universal binary and runtime for macOS x86_64 and arm64
  • ISPC binary and runtime based on libtbb.so.2 for Linux x86_64
  • ISPC binary and runtime based on libtbb.so.12 for Linux x86_64 (for OneAPI distribution)
  • ISPC binary and runtime for Linux aarch64
  • Examples packed in tar.gz archive
  • Examples packed in zip archive
  • Source code packed in tar.gz archive
  • Source code packed in zip archive

For the latest version, please go to https://github.com/ispc/ispc/releases/latest to download the required package.

All archives are signed with a following PGP key.

Here are alternative ways to download and install ISPC:

Here is installation instruction for Windows:

Here are latest ISPC binaries corresponding to main branch (based on LLVM 18.1.8):

Here is LLVM 3.5 based binary with experimental NVPTX support:

After installation, add the platform-appropriate binary executable to your PATH. Then see the ispc user's guide and the examples in the examples/ directory of the distribution.

You can download previous versions on Github releases page.

Alternatively, source can be downloaded. If you're using git, run:

% git clone https://github.com/ispc/ispc.git ispc

Finally, zip and tar files of the top-of-tree source can be downloaded:

There is a page in the ispc wiki with instructions about building from source on Windows, Linux and macOS.