topic Re: How does MKL floating license work? in Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library

How does MKL floating license work?

johnappleyard377 — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 16:30:00 GMT

As subject. Compile/Run time? With a retention period? I'm trying to size an order.

Re: How does MKL floating license work?

Todd_R_Intel — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 23:08:52 GMT

I don't quite understand your questions. I do want to assure you (in case it is one of your questions) that no compile or run-time license checking is done.

-Todd

Re: How does MKL floating license work?

johnappleyard377 — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:46:52 GMT

If I buy part number MKL080LFAE005 (MKL 8.0 for Linux Floating 5 Seat Pack Email) then as I understand what you are saying, there is no checking to see that the users do not take more than 5 floating licenses at the same time. The system relies entirely on trust, and users will never get locked out, regardless of how many actually use the libraries. Could you confirm that - it's not what I expected!

Re: How does MKL floating license work?

Todd_R_Intel — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:35:42 GMT

Believe it or not, it's true. We rely on the honor system. We explored the option of using run-time checking, but did not want to risk that this checking could result in problems in the end-user app.

So currently we provide floating licenses in conjunction with floating licenses of the Intel compilers and do only install time checking (which really doesn't make use of floating licenses).

Todd