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title: Install ispc on Kubuntu using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of ispc for on Kubuntu - Compiler for high-performance
  SIMD programming on the CPU and GPU
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/ispc/kubuntu
---

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# Install ispc on **Kubuntu**

# ispc

[Aleksei Nurmukhametov (nurmukhametov)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/nurmukhametov "View all snaps from Aleksei Nurmukhametov (nurmukhametov)")

* [Aleksei Nurmukhametov (nurmukhametov)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/nurmukhametov "View all snaps from Aleksei Nurmukhametov (nurmukhametov)")

[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/ispc/kubuntu#install)

#### Compiler for high-performance SIMD programming on the CPU and GPU

The Intel® Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (Intel® ISPC) is a compiler for
writing SPMD (single program multiple data) programs to run on the CPU and
GPU. The SPMD programming approach is widely known to graphics and GPGPU
programmers. The main idea behind SPMD is that one writes programs as if they
were operating on a single data element (a pixel for a pixel shader, for
example), but then the underlying hardware and runtime system executes
multiple invocations of the program in parallel with different inputs (the
values for different pixels, for example).

### Package name

* ispc

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### License

* BSD-3-Clause

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### Last updated

* 14 October 2026 - latest/stable
* 1 April 2024 - latest/edge

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### Websites

* [ispc.github.io](https://ispc.github.io/ "https://ispc.github.io/")

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### Contact

* [aleksei.nurmukhametov@intel.com](mailto:aleksei.nurmukhametov@intel.com "mailto:aleksei.nurmukhametov@intel.com")

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### Source code

* [github.com/ispc/ispc](https://github.com/ispc/ispc "https://github.com/ispc/ispc")

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/ispc/ispc/issues](https://github.com/ispc/ispc/issues "https://github.com/ispc/ispc/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/ispc/kubuntu#report-snap-modal)

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## Enable snaps on Kubuntu and install ispc

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

If you’re running [Kubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)](https://kubuntu.org/) or later, including [Kubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu) and [Kubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.

Versions of Kubuntu between [14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)](https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-14-04-lts) and [15.10 (Wily Werewolf)](https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-15-10) don’t include *snap* by default, but *snap* can be installed from the command line as follows:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

### Install ispc

To install ispc, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install ispc
```

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