I have asked this on the Intel's forums, with no luck.
Does anybody know in which version of Intel TBB did they start supporting the Xeon Phi co-Processors?
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The initial support was added in Intel(R) TBB 4.1.
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1I never said I intended to use older versions. I was preparing a lecture of Shared Memory Programming, and I wanted to highlight the fact that TBB has not always supported such said architecture. I appreciate your reply, however, can you provide me with a reference to it? – Eduardo Nov 28 '13 at 21:52
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If you download Intel TBB 4.1 and 4.0 U5 packages for Linux from [Intel TBB open source site](https://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/download#stable-releases) and extract them you will notice that 4.1 version has binaries for Intel Xeon Phi but 4.0 U5 version does not. – Alex Nov 29 '13 at 14:51
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To tell the truth it is a rather obvious fact that Intel TBB has not always supported Intel Xeon Phi since Intel TBB was inroduced on August 29, 2006 ([wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threading_Building_Blocks)) but the first version of Intel MIC architecture was introduced in 2010 ([wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MIC)) – Alex Nov 29 '13 at 14:59
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As Xeon Phi is an x86 platform, it is curious why anyone would assert that TBB from 2006, which certainly supported x86 at that time, could not - at least in principle, once some build system issues were addressed - run on Xeon Phi. – Jeff Hammond Jan 02 '15 at 05:46
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Undoubtedly, you can build (possibly with fixes) and run on Intel Xeon Phi any version of Intel TBB. However, if you want to state that it is supported on a specific platform you need to test on this platform. Does anyone test old versions of software on a new hardware? In my opinion, usually current version of software is tested on a new platforms. Therefore, I can suppose that nobody has tested versions before 2010 on Intel Xeon Phi. – Alex Mar 09 '15 at 19:23