is a comprehensive software development suite released on September 6, 2016 . It was designed to help developers build, debug, and tune high-performance applications by leveraging parallelism . The suite integrates industry-leading compilers, libraries, and analysis tools to optimize code for the latest Intel processors, including the Intel Xeon Phi (Knights Landing) and Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Core Editions and Components
The "2017" designation refers to the version release cycle, which introduced critical support for Intel’s 6th and 7th generation Core processors (Skylake and Kaby Lake), along with expanded vectorization capabilities.
If you have a copy, fire it up. Compile your code with -fast . Watch your CPU fans spin up. That sound is performance.