[Csnd-dev] Intel MKL

Date	2017-03-22 23:40
From	Steven Yi
Subject	[Csnd-dev] Intel MKL
	Hi All, I saw this library mentioned on a Clojure mailing list: https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-mkl I couldn't figure out about license, but the benchmarks seemed intriguing and that it could be dropped in for things like BLAS seemed handy. Anyways, thought it worth mentioning!

Date	2017-03-23 06:53
From	Victor Lazzarini
Subject	Re: [Csnd-dev] Intel MKL
	interesting. Worth a look. Victor Lazzarini Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Philosophy Maynooth University Ireland > On 22 Mar 2017, at 23:40, Steven Yi wrote: > > Hi All, > > I saw this library mentioned on a Clojure mailing list: > > https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-mkl > > I couldn't figure out about license, but the benchmarks seemed > intriguing and that it could be dropped in for things like BLAS seemed > handy. > > Anyways, thought it worth mentioning!

Date	2017-03-23 07:45
From	Michael Gogins
Subject	Re: [Csnd-dev] Intel MKL
	It was proprietary software, paid for by developer seat. Now it can be used freely. In my experience the C++ header only library Eigen offers very good performance. Boost::numeric::ublas is OK and can be installed easily on most systems. I suggest we do some tests and see what using MKL versus the alternatives gets us. Best, Mike On Mar 23, 2017 5:53 PM, "Victor Lazzarini" <Victor.Lazzarini@nuim.ie> wrote: interesting. Worth a look. Victor Lazzarini Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Philosophy Maynooth University Ireland > On 22 Mar 2017, at 23:40, Steven Yi <stevenyi@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I saw this library mentioned on a Clojure mailing list: > > https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-mkl > > I couldn't figure out about license, but the benchmarks seemed > intriguing and that it could be dropped in for things like BLAS seemed > handy. > > Anyways, thought it worth mentioning! > steven

Date	2017-03-23 10:51
From	Michael Gogins
Subject	Re: [Csnd-dev] Intel MKL
	Here are some recent benchmarks. http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/glas-gemm-benchmark.html Mir is in D and is open source. MKL and Mir are faster than Eigen. But Eigen can be used as a nice interface for MKL. Best, Mike On Mar 23, 2017 6:45 PM, "Michael Gogins" <michael.gogins@gmail.com> wrote: It was proprietary software, paid for by developer seat. Now it can be used freely. In my experience the C++ header only library Eigen offers very good performance. Boost::numeric::ublas is OK and can be installed easily on most systems. I suggest we do some tests and see what using MKL versus the alternatives gets us. Best, Mike On Mar 23, 2017 5:53 PM, "Victor Lazzarini" <Victor.Lazzarini@nuim.ie> wrote: interesting. Worth a look. Victor Lazzarini Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Philosophy Maynooth University Ireland > On 22 Mar 2017, at 23:40, Steven Yi <stevenyi@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I saw this library mentioned on a Clojure mailing list: > > https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-mkl > > I couldn't figure out about license, but the benchmarks seemed > intriguing and that it could be dropped in for things like BLAS seemed > handy. > > Anyways, thought it worth mentioning! > steven