MKL libraries

William Weaver williamdweaver-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Jul 25 17:00:39 UTC 2013


Would it be ok if I message you off list. I'm really interested in learning
about what projects your working on and if it's something I can help with.

Will Weaver


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> MKL stands for, as I understand, Math Kernel Library, and these are owned
> by Intel (just around $500).
>
> I am interested in one program where these are used:
> http://inac.cea.fr/Pisp/**xavier.waintal/KNIT.php<http://inac.cea.fr/Pisp/xavier.waintal/KNIT.php>
>
> But do not bother to run it as it is. I spend a few days to make it
> workable (if by chance anyone is interested though I have a receipt ready
> how to make it working on Ubuntu)
>
> The KNIT uses during linking such a thing:
>
> -lmkl_lapack -lmkl_intel_thread -lguide
>
> My questions:
>
> 1. Is this true that mkl_lapack, mkl_intel_thread, and guide are Intel
> libraries? I ignored these linkings and things are working well.
>
> 2. Does the performance really strongly depend on that I have no these
> libs?
>
> 3. Is there (I guess not) any replacement from GPL word for these?
>
> zb.
>
>
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