Intel MKL 10.3 update 5 is now available

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Intel Math Kernel Library (Intel MKL) is a highly optimized, extensively threaded, and thread-safe library of mathematical functions for engineering, scientific, and financial applications that require maximum performance. The Intel MKL 10.3 Update 5 packages are now ready for download. Intel MKL is available as a stand-alone product and as a part of the Intel Parallel Studio XE 2011, Intel C++ Studio XE 2011, Intel Composer XE 2011, Intel Fortran Composer XE 2011, Intel C++ Composer XE 2011, and Intel Cluster Studio 2011. Please visit the Intel Software Evaluation Center to evaluate this product.

What's New in Intel MKL 10.3 update 5

• BLAS: Improved performance: {S,C,Z}TRSM for processors with Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel AVX); {S,D}GEM2VU for processors with Intel AVX as well as the Intel Core i7 processor and the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series
• BLAS: Improved scaling: ?TRMV for large matrices on all architectures; DGEMM for odd numbers of threads on Intel Xeon processor 5400 series
• LAPACK: Included LAPACK 3.3.1 extensions and the respective LAPACKE interfaces
• LAPACK: Improved the performance of ?SYGST and ?HEGST used in generalized eigenvalue problems
• LAPACK: Improved the performance of the inverse of an LU factored matrix (?GETRI)
• PARDISO: Added transpose and conjugate transpose solve capability (A^Tx=b and A^Hx=b); facilitates compressed sparse column (CSC) format support
• PARDISO: Improve out-of-core PARDISO performance when the memory requirements slightly exceed available memory using MKL_PARDISO_OOC_MAX_SWAP_SIZE environment variable and in-core PARDISO
• Optimization Solvers: Added Inf and NaN checks in the RCI Trust-Region solvers
• FFTs: Improved the performance of 3D FFTs on small cubes from 2x2x2 to 10x10x10 for all supported precisions and types on all Intel processors supporting Intel SSE3 and later
• FFT examples: Re-designed example programs to cover common use cases for Intel MKL DFTI and FFTW
• VSL: Improved the performance of the single precision MT19937 and MT2203 basic random number generators on the Intel Core i7-2600 processor on 64-bit operating systems
• VSL: Improved the performance of the integer version of the SOBOL quasi-random number generator on the Intel Core i7-2600 processor and Intel Xeon processor 5400 series

Read the release notes online for more information.