Intel MKL has been optimized on Intel® Xeon 5500 series and Intel Core™ i7 processors.
The following functions have significant performance improvements for the above processors in Intel MKL 10.1 version
• BLAS :
o DGEMM
o SGEMM, DTRSM (64 bit)
• VML :
o Asin, Asinh, Acos, Acosh, Atan, Atan2, Atanh, Cbrt, CIS, Cos, Cosh, Conj, Div, ErfInv, Exp, Hypot, Inv, InvCbrt,
InvSqrt, Ln, Log10, MulByConj, Sin, SinCos, Sinh, Sqrt, Tanh.
• VSL :
o Uniform Random Number Generators
o VSL distribution generators based on Wichmann-Hill, Sobol, and Niederreiter BRNGs (64-bit only).
Intel MKL also has significant performance and efficiency improvements for Linpack benchmark on Intel® Xeon 5500 processors.
For more details and performance results, please click "
Performance Improvements and Charts" from
Intel MKL product site.