If you just want to test the performance, I think you need link MKL for BLAS and MKL-DNN for NN. Also MKL-DNN should link MKL for better performance.
Here are some ways for you to install full MKL library if you don't have one: 1. Register and download from intel website: https://software.intel.com/en-us/mkl 2. Apt-get/yum: currently it need configure Intel’s repositories. a. https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/installing-intel-free-libs-and-python-yum-repo b. https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/installing-intel-free-libs-and-python-apt-repo 3. pip install mkl / mkl-devel: ‘mkl’ package has the runtime and ‘mkl-devel’ includes everything with the headers a. https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/installing-the-intel-distribution-for-python-and-intel-performance-libraries-with-pip-and 4. conda install: also has mkl and mkl-devel a. https://anaconda.org/intel/mkl b. https://anaconda.org/intel/mkl-devel If you want to redistribute MKL with MXNet, you may need take care of the license issue. Currently, MKL is using ISSL (https://software.intel.com/en-us/license/intel-simplified-software-license ). -----Original Message----- From: Zai, Alexander [mailto:alex...@amazon.com.INVALID] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 12:49 PM To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Remove MKLML as dependency Will test it out tomorrow. On the side, what is the best way to test MKL build for MXnet. MKL is licensed? Best, Alex On 9/18/18, 7:50 PM, "Lv, Tao A" <tao.a...@intel.com> wrote: Hi Alex, Thanks for bringing this up. The original intention of MKLML is to provide a light and easy-to-access library for ML/DL community. It's released with MKL-DNN under Apache-2.0 license. AFAIK, MKL-DNN still relies on it for better performance. So I'm afraid there will be a performance regression in MKL pip packages if MKLML is simply removed. Have you ever tried the build without MKLML and how does the performance look like? -tao -----Original Message----- From: Alex Zai [mailto:aza...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 4:49 AM To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org Subject: Remove MKLML as dependency On our build from source page we have a list of blas libraries that are recommended: https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/install/build_from_source.html MKL-DNN MKL MKLML Apple Accelerate OpenBlas MKLML is a subset of MKL (https://github.com/intel/mkl-dnn/issues/102) and therefore MKLML users can just use MKL instead. Does anyone see an issue with me removing this? It would simplify out doc page and build file. Alex
