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ATLAS vs. Intel Math Kernel Library

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Patrick Geoffray patrick at myri.com
Mon May 21 19:28:18 PDT 2001


"Ole W. Saastad" wrote:
> 
> How does the performance of ATLAS generated libraries compare
> to the Intel Math Kernel Library?

Hi Ole,

On P4, ATLAS is pretty good. I let you judge from
http://www.netlib.org/atlas/atlas-comm/msg00240.html
When ATLAS beats MKL, the difference may be quite large :-)

ATLAS is free, easy to install and you can redistribute it.

Regards.

-- 
Patrick Geoffray

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