Intel MKL 10.3 update 8 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 8 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 XE 2012. Please visit the Intel Software Evaluation Center to evaluate this product.

What's New in Intel MKL 10.3 update 8

• Data Fitting component: Added a set of new data fitting functions covering one-dimensional algorithms for vector spline construction, cell or bin search, and evaluation, differentiation, and integration of the spline interpolants. Includes support for:
  • Linear, quadratic, cubic, step-wise const, and user-defined splines
  • Cell search with configuration parameters for optimal performance
  • User-defined interpolation and extrapolation
  • Vector-valued functions
  • Column- and row-major storage formats
  Training materials are available
• Sparse BLAS: Improved compressed sparse row matrix-vector multiply (?CSRMV) performance for very sparse matrices on high core counts supporting Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)
• FFTs: Improved the performance of the 1D double precision FFTs on systems supporting Intel AVX
• Statistics functions: Improved the performance and scalability for computing the Variance-Covariance and Correlation matrices (FAST method) on Intel Core processors
• Added a Microsoft* Visual Studio* project tool for building custom DLLs from static library files
• Bug fixes

Note: The static OpenMP* runtime library has been deprecated and there are plans to remove this in a future version of Intel MKL for Windows*. For more information visit our knowledgebase article or give us your feedback by replying to the notice on the Intel MKL forum.

Read the release notes online for the latest information.