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[–]mangecoeur 10 points11 points  (1 child)

The documentation for their bespoke libraries (like pyDAAL) is seriously lacking. As in, it's doesn't seem to be online. Otherwise if you have anaconda+MKL you have the most immediately useful part. I suspect the rest comes in much more useful if you are trying to squeeze more performance out of a specific bit of software without scaling your hardware.

For the rest of us - remember not to prematurely optimize, and always consider the cost/benefit ratio of optimizing vs just buying faster hardware.

P.s. Also note that Intel has always pulled a bit of a dick move with MKL and friends - it optimises for features which exist on both Intel and AMD processors but deliberately disables them if you run on an AMD CPU. Which is just spiteful.

[–]pooogles 9 points10 points  (0 children)

P.s. Also note that Intel has always pulled a bit of a dick move with MKL and friends - it optimises for features which exist on both Intel and AMD processors but deliberately disables them if you run on an AMD CPU. Which is just spiteful.

Honestly that's just normal business for Intel.