Developer Guide

Developer Guide for Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library Linux*

ID 766690
Date 3/31/2023
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Dynamic Libraries in the lib/intel64_lin Directory

Some of the libraries in this directory are optional. However, some optional libraries are installed by default, while the rest are not. To get those libraries that are not installed by default, explicitly select the specified optional component during installation.

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File

Contents

Optional Component

Name

Installed by Default

mkl_sycl.so

DPC++ library for the Intel DPC++ compilers

libmkl_rt.so

Single Dynamic Library

   

Interface Layer

     

libmkl_intel_lp64.so

LP64 interface library for the Intel compilers. Also use for other supported compilers that do not have a specialized Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library interface library

   

libmkl_intel_ilp64.so

ILP64 interface library for the Intel compilers. Also use for other supported compilers that do not have a specialized Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library interface library

   

libmkl_gf_lp64.so

LP64 interface library for the GNU Fortran compilers

GNU* Compiler Collection support

Yes

libmkl_gf_ilp64.so

ILP64 interface library for the GNU Fortran compilers

GNU* Compiler Collection support

Yes

Threading Layer

     

libmkl_intel_thread.so

OpenMP threading library for the Intel compilers

   

libmkl_tbb_thread.so

Intel TBB threading library for the Intel compilers

Intel TBB threading support

Yes

libmkl_gnu_thread.so

OpenMP threading library for the GNU Fortran and C compilers

GNU* Compiler Collection support

Yes

libmkl_pgi_thread.so

OpenMP threading library for the PGI* compiler

PGI* Compiler support

 

libmkl_sequential.so

Sequential library

   

Computational Layer

     

libmkl_core.so

Library dispatcher for dynamic load of processor-specific kernel

   

libmkl_def.so

Default kernel library

   

libmkl_mc.so

Kernel library for Intel® Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (Intel® SSSE3) enabled processors

   

libmkl_mc3.so

Kernel library for Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2 (Intel® SSE4.2) enabled processors

   

libmkl_avx.so

Kernel library for Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX) enabled processors

   

libmkl_avx2.so

Kernel library for Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2) enabled processors

   

libmkl_avx512.so

Kernel library for dispatching Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) on Intel® Xeon® processors

   

libmkl_avx512_mic.so

Kernel library for dispatching Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) on Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors

   

libmkl_vml_def.so

Vector Mathematics (VM)/Vector Statistics (VS)/Data Fitting (DF) part of default kernels

   

libmkl_vml_mc.so

VM/VS/DF for Intel® SSSE3 enabled processors

   

libmkl_vml_mc2.so

VM/VS/DF for 45nm Hi-k Intel® Core™2 and Intel® Xeon® processor families

   

libmkl_vml_mc3.so

VM/VS/DF for Intel® SSE4.2 enabled processors

   

libmkl_vml_avx.so

VM/VS/DF optimized for Intel® AVX enabled processors

   

libmkl_vml_avx2.so

VM/VS/DF optimized for Intel® AVX2 enabled processors

   

libmkl_vml_avx512.so

VM/VS/DF optimized for Intel® AVX-512 on Intel® Xeon® processors

   

libmkl_vml_avx512_mic.so

VM/VS/DF optimized for Intel® AVX-512 on Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors

   

libmkl_vml_cmpt.so

VM/VS/DF library for conditional numerical reproducibility

   

Cluster Libraries

     

libmkl_scalapack_lp64.so

ScaLAPACK routine library supporting the LP64 interface

Cluster support

 

libmkl_scalapack_ilp64.so

ScaLAPACK routine library supporting the ILP64 interface

Cluster support

 

libmkl_cdft_core.so

Cluster version of FFT functions.

Cluster support

 

libmkl_blacs_intelmpi_lp64.so

LP64 version of BLACS routines for Intel® MPI Library and MPICH2 or higher.

Cluster support

 

libmkl_blacs_intelmpi_ilp64.so

ILP64 version of BLACS routines for Intel MPI Library and MPICH2 or higher.

Cluster support

 

libmkl_blacs_openmpi_lp64.so

LP64 version of BLACS routines for Open MPI.

Cluster support

 

libmkl_blacs_openmpi_ilp64.so

ILP64 version of BLACS routines for Open MPI.

Cluster support

 

Message Catalogs

     

locale/en_US/mkl_msg.cat

Catalog of Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library (oneMKL) messages in English

   

locale/ja_JP/mkl_msg.cat

Catalog of Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library messages in Japanese. Available only if Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library provides Japanese localization.

   

Product and Performance Information

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.

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