Intel® Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) processor optimization in Intel® MKL

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Last Modified On :   April 2, 2009 12:00 PM PDT
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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.





This article applies to: Intel® Math Kernel Library Knowledge Base