Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL) 2020 System Requirements

Intel® Math Kernel Library System Requirements

The Intel® MKL 2020 release supports the IA-32 and Intel® 64 architectures. For a complete explanation of these architecture names please read the following article:

Intel Architecture Platform Terminology for Development Tools

The lists below pertain only to the system requirements necessary to support developing applications with Intel® MKL. Please review your compiler (GCC*, Microsoft* Visual Studio or Intel® Compiler), hardware and software system requirements, in the documentation provided with that product, to determine the minimum development system requirements necessary to support your compiler product.

Windows* OS

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows* Server 2019
• Windows* 10
• Windows* (HPC) Server 2012 (Intel64 version only)
• Windows* Server 2016 (Intel64 version only)

Supported C/C++ and FORTRAN compilers

• Intel® C++ Compiler 2018
• Intel® C++ Compiler 2019
• Intel® C++ Compiler 2019.1
• Intel® FORTRAN Compiler 2018
• Intel® FORTRAN Compiler 2019
• Microsoft* Visual Studio 2017
• Microsoft* Visual Studio 2019
• PGI* Compiler 2018

MPI implementations that Intel® MKL for Windows* OS has been validated against

• Intel® MPI Library Version 2018
• Intel® MPI Library Version 2019
• MPICH 2.14
• Microsoft* HPC 2016

Note: Usage of MPI and linking instructions can be found in the Intel Math Kernel Library Developer Reference.

Linux* OS

Supported Operating Systems

• Amazon* Linux 2
• Cent OS 7.x
• Cent OS 8.x
• Clear Linux
• Debian 8
• Debian 9
• Fedora 30
• Fedora 31
• openSUSE 15
• Red Hat EL 7
• Red Hat EL 8
• SLES 12
• SLES 15
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 19.10
• Wind River* Linux* 18
• Wind River* Linux* 19
• Yocto 2.7
• Yocto 2.8

Supported C/C++ and FORTRAN compilers

• Intel® C++ Compiler 2018
• Intel® C++ Compiler 2019
• Intel® C++ Compiler 2019.1
• Intel® FORTRAN Compiler 2018
• Intel® FORTRAN Compiler 2019
• GNU Compiler Collection* 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.x
• PGI* Compiler 2018.5

MPI implementations that Intel® MKL for Linux* OS has been validated against

• Intel® MPI Library Version 2018
• Intel® MPI Library Version 2019
• MPICH 2.14
• MPICH 3.3
• Open MPI 1.81

Note: Usage of MPI and linking instructions can be found in the Intel Math Kernel Library Developer Reference.

macOS*

Supported Operating Systems

• macOS* 10.14
• macOS* 10.15

Supported compilers

• Intel® C++ Compiler 2018
• Intel® C++ Compiler 2019
• Intel® C++ Compiler 2019.1
• Intel® FORTRAN Compiler 2018
• Intel® FORTRAN Compiler 2019
• XCode* 10
• XCode* 11
• PGI* Compiler 2018.5

MPI implementations that Intel® MKL for macOS* has been validated against

• MPICH 2.14
• Open MPI 1.81

Note: Usage of MPI and linking instructions can be found in the Intel Math Kernel Library Developer Reference.

Memory requirements