Hello On Jan 8, 2008 5:31 PM, Ray Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:27 AM 1/8/2008, you wrote: > > 4. Re: parallel numpy (by Brian Granger) - any info? > > (Matthieu Brucher) > >From: "Matthieu Brucher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >MKL does the multithreading on its own for level 3 BLAS instructions > >(OpenMP). > > There was brief debate yesterday among the Pythonians in the lab as > to whether the MKL operates outside of the GIL, but it was general > understanding that it does. > > It is still unclear to me whether Python/numpy compiled with MKL > would be freely re-distributable, as the MSVC version is.
Read the License Agreement on Intel's site. My interpretation is that it would be redistributable. http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/266854.htm In a related matter, Intel MKL on a MP Xeon with OMP_NUM_THREADS=8 flies on large matrices. Cheers, Albert _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
