Multi-Core Software

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Intel® Performance Libraries: Multi-Core-Ready Software for Numeric-Intensive Computation

SUMMARY

The Intel® MKL is part of a suite of tools offered by Intel to help developers create software efficiently and to achieve high performance. For MKL, the goal has been to provide an easy-to-use software package to aid in the development of mathematical software. Achieving that goal has a number of facets, some of which we have touched on in this paper: functionality, compiler independence, performance, and the most recent efforts in performance, focusing on helping the user get the full benefits available from Intel® multi-core systems. We have discussed in general terms some of the approaches taken by library developers to achieve the performance goals including threading at a higher level of functionality (LAPACK) and improving the locality of reference for data in LAPACK codes through more effective use of the Level 3 BLAS, and so on.

As the complexity and core counts for microprocessors continue to grow, MKL (and IPP) will optimize functions that impact performance in key application areas ensuring full and effective use of those processor developments.

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