Introducing Additional oneAPI Open-Source Math Library Interfaces

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Updated 10/9/2020
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As part of the oneAPI industry initiative, we released a third in a family of open-source math interfaces. The goal of open-sourcing the Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library (oneMKL) interface is to address the lack of an industry-standard interface and provide a single, cross-architecture API for CPUs and accelerators. The oneMKL open-source interface lets developers use a single DPC++-based API across multiple CPU and accelerator architectures. Until recently, developers have used multiple libraries, which increased the complexity of their code base and lengthened their development cycle.

 

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The oneMKL APIs can be combined with math libraries that target a range of CPU hardware and other accelerator architectures. For example, the oneMKL open-source interface provides a path to run AMD* and NVIDIA* libraries on Intel® CPUs, GPUs and other accelerators. In other words, oneMKL APIs have a common front end with a hardware-specific back end.

oneMKL is an important part of the oneAPI specification, and offers essential math library interfaces for:

  • Dense linear algebra
  • Sparse linear algebra
  • Random number generators
  • Discrete Fourier transforms
  • Vector math
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The oneMKL Linear Algebra Package (LAPACK) includes functionality for solving systems of linear equations and linear least squares, eigenvalue problems, and singular value decomposition. Developers use oneMKL LAPACK in high-performance computing, numerical simulations, AI, machine learning, and many other scientific computing applications. The oneMKL LAPACK open-source interface greatly expands the coverage of common math functions.

The oneMKL open-source interfaces currently support the dense linear algebra BLAS and LAPACK domains, as well as the RNG domain. LAPACK open-source interfaces, with support for the oneMKL on Intel® CPU and GPU back ends, are now available for download. We encourage oneAPI partners to use the new interfaces to support additional cross-architecture hardware devices. In future development, additional open-source interfaces may be added for other domains. The oneAPI specification supports cross-architecture programming, extending developer programming models to enable a diverse set of hardware through language, a set of library APIs, and a low-level hardware interface. To promote compatibility and enable developer productivity and innovation, the oneAPI specification builds on industry standards and provides an open, cross-platform developer stack.

 

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