topic Re: Does Math Kernel Library support Power PC Processor? in Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library

Does Math Kernel Library support Power PC Processor?

yanfeng_gong — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:34:43 GMT

I need to port some software application based on Math Kernel Library to Power PC processor, for example FreeScale PowerQUICC Pro Family, running Linux. Is there any compatibility issues? Any insights will be greatly appreciated!

Re: Does Math Kernel Library support Power PC Processor?

sspine — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:40:17 GMT

Quoting - yanfeng_gong@selinc.com

Obviously, NO!

Intel develop MKL only for their own processors.

Re: Does Math Kernel Library support Power PC Processor?

newton_particle — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:31:44 GMT

Quoting - sspine

Obviously, NO!

Intel develop MKL only for their own processors.

That's not entirely accurate. AMD processors are also supported and I can vouch for impressive performance in these cases.

For full compatibility details see the following link:

http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/321173.htm#proc

Newton
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Re: Does Math Kernel Library support Power PC Processor?

yanfeng_gong — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:42:30 GMT

Quoting - newton_particle

That's not entirely accurate. AMD processors are also supported and I can vouch for impressive performance in these cases.

For full compatibility details see the following link:

http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/321173.htm#proc

Newton
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Thanks for the reply. Power PC is not on the list. Is Power PC a IA compatiable processor? Any link of saying so?

Re: Does Math Kernel Library support Power PC Processor?

newton_particle — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:34:46 GMT

Quoting - yanfeng_gong@selinc.com

Thanks for the reply. Power PC is not on the list. Is Power PC a IA compatiable processor? Any link of saying so?

The simple answer is no; you are most likely going to have to look at an alternative package that is fully coded in a language you can compile to your specific processor.

A quick Google search brought up this one: http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/

However, I have no idea how good it is. If I personally were porting an algorithm for an embedded application, I would do it in Simulink and export the code via the real-time embedded coder. But this is only a path if you have prior experience with such environments.

An alternative to the previous ones would be to get the latest Numerical Recipes 3^rd edition with code cd.

Newton
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Re: Does Math Kernel Library support Power PC Processor?

sspine — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:19:39 GMT

Intel MKL support AMD processors because both Intel and AMD share the same architecture - x86. Like Intel, AMD has their own performance math library like MKL, and AMD also support Intel processors. But PowerPC is a totally different architecture.