Re:Intel's “cripple AMD” function (2019)
by ip26 on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:23PM
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I think this: https://developer.amd.com/amd-aocl/amd-math-library-libm/ is supposed to be the alternative to MKL for those applications.
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Re:Intel's “cripple AMD” function (2019)
by dr_zoidberg on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:53PM
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No need to develop and alternative when you can trick MKL into not crippling AMD: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/How-To-Use-MKL-with-AM...
Edit: the link I posted follows Agner's advice from the bottom of OPs link. However I think the extra information that it adds is that Zen2 Threadrippers outpaced then-current Intel's top contender. Once Zen3 and Intel's 11th Gen become available, repeating this benchmarks would be very valuable.
Thank you! I wasn't aware of this.
But this is only a replacement for libm (i.e. basic trig, exp function), not the matrix-orientated BLAS, LAPACK and SCALAPACK routines that scientific codes spend >90% of their time.
I'm not personally familiar with those, but seems like BLAS, SCALAPACK, & others are also available: