Seems so.

numpy/fft/__init__.py

when installed with conda contains a thin optional wrapper around
mklfft, e.g. this here:

https://docs.continuum.io/accelerate/mkl_fft

It is part of the accelerate package from continuum and thus not free.


Cheers!

Lion



On 01/06/16 09:44, Gregor Thalhammer wrote:
> 
>> Am 31.05.2016 um 23:36 schrieb Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> Joseph Martinot-Lagarde <contreba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The problem with FFTW is that its license is more restrictive (GPL), and
>>> because of this may not be suitable everywhere numpy.fft is.
>>
>> A lot of us use NumPy linked with MKL or Accelerate, both of which have
>> some really nifty FFTs. And the license issue is hardly any worse than
>> linking with them for BLAS and LAPACK, which we do anyway. We could extend
>> numpy.fft to use MKL or Accelerate when they are available.
> 
> It seems the anaconda numpy binaries do already use MKL for fft:
> 
> In [2]: np.fft.using_mklfft
> Out[2]: True
> 
> Is this based on a proprietary patch of numpy?
> 
> Gregor 
> 
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