This document provides instructions for setting up a Windows environment for Cilk development using Intel Parallel Studio and Visual Studio. It outlines installing prerequisites like Visual Studio and .NET Framework and Intel Parallel Studio. It then provides steps to create a first Cilk project in Visual Studio, including adding Cilk include files and a parallelized for loop to calculate a sum.

1. Starting Cilk™ Development on Windows
A small guide by Mazen Abdulaziz < >
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1 Introduction
This document will guide you through preparing your Windows environment to start developing C/C++ applications using the Intel Cilk™ extensions.
2 Prerequisites
The following software packages are required in order to use Cilk™:
 Microsoft Visual Studio 2010* or above, with .NET framework 4.0 or above.
 One of the following:
o Intel Parallel Studio Composer Edition 2013 or above. A trial version can be obtained from this link (choose Windows OS, then Composer Edition for C++).
o Intel Parallel Studio Professional Edition 2013 or above.
o Intel Parallel Studio Cluster Edition 2013 or above.
* Note that for Visual Studio 2010, you need to update the .NET framework to version 4 or 4.5:
1. Download .NET framework version 4.0 from this link.
2. Download .NET framework version 4.5 from this link.
3 Installation Instructions
Now that you have all the requirements, you can start the installation process in the following order:
1. Install Visual Studio, making sure to include Visual C++ in the installation options. 2. If your version of Visual Studio is 2010, then install .NET framework 4.0 and 4.5.
3. Install Intel Parallel Studio. The installation wizard will ask you at some point to choose Visual Studio integration target. Choose all that applies. For example, if you have Visual Studio 2012 on your machine, choose to integrate with it, and continue installation:

2. 4. You’re all set!
4 Your First Cilk™ Project
Let’s create our first Cilk-enabled project in Visual Studio. In this tutorial, I’ll be using Visual Studio 2013. However, these instructions should apply similarly to older versions of Visual Studio:
1. Run Visual Studio.
2. Select File > New > Project:
3. From Visual C++ template, choose Win32 Console Application, give a name to the project, then hit OK:

3. 4. The Win32 Application Wizard will be displayed, click Next.
5. Choose “Empty project”, then click Finish:
6. Choose Project > Intel (…) > Use Intel C++:

4. 7. From the Solution Explorer view, right click on the Source Files folder, choose Add > New Item:
8. Choose C++ File (.cpp), give it a name then hit Add:

5. 9. Write the following code (copy/paste): #include <iostream> #include <cilk/cilk.h> int main() { int sum = 0; // The following for loop will be parallelized cilk_for(int i = 0; i <= 10000; i++) { sum += i; } std::cout << sum << "n"; return 0; }
10. Run the code using Ctrl + F5:
Congratulations, you can now make a better world by coding faster applications!