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Re: octave + mkl


From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Subject: Re: octave + mkl
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 16:37:22 -0400

On 16 May 2012 16:29, Joshua Dillon <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Joshua Dillon <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> My *VERY* informal timing of MKL+octave shows it to be exactly the
>> same speed as Matlab for "standard" operations like eig and eigs.
>> Indeed, matlab uses MKL for these operations.

eigs has little to do with MKL. It's done with ARPACK. Are you really
seeing a lot of difference with eigs?

> Also--I'm on a quad core i5 2405 so that probably explains the 4x
> speed-up.

So probably what we'd like to see is more parallelisation in OpenBLAS,
LAPACK, and fftw?

- Jordi G. H.


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