{"categories":[{"label":"Libraries","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development-libraries/8"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Provides Intel's oneAPI Collective Communications Library runtime for distributed training workloads, enabling scalable communication across multiple compute nodes.","skillfed_tags":["distributed-training","intel-hardware"],"use_cases":["Backend runtime for distributed PyTorch or TensorFlow training on Intel hardware clusters.","Enabling multi-node collective operations in custom distributed training scripts.","Optimizing communication latency in large-scale machine learning workloads on Intel systems."],"what_it_does":"oneccl is Intel's oneAPI Collective Communications Library runtime, a low-level component for distributed machine learning training. It provides optimized communication primitives (allreduce, broadcast, etc.) across multiple compute nodes, typically used as a backend by higher-level distributed training frameworks. The package itself is a runtime environment rather than a user-facing API\u2014it is usually installed as a dependency of other tools rather than used directly.\n\nThe package carries medium install friction because it depends on two Intel-specific runtime libraries (impi-rt and intel-sycl-rt) and is distributed only as a pre-built wheel for x86_64 Linux. It is actively maintained and carries no known security vulnerabilities, but its license is proprietary and not SPDX-identified, which may matter for compliance-sensitive deployments.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you are running distributed training on Intel hardware and your training framework (PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.) lists oneccl as a dependency or recommends it for performance. No, if you are not doing distributed training or are using non-Intel hardware. Clarify the proprietary license terms with Intel before production use in commercial or regulated environments."},"id":"oneccl","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/oneccl","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/oneccl.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/oneccl/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-07-15","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"unclear","name":"oneccl","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"Intel\u00ae oneAPI Collective Communications Library Runtime Environment"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":148063,"position":11045,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"2022.1.1"}