[Numpy-discussion] performance matrix multiplication vs. matlab

[Xue (Sue) Yang]

Hi David,

Thank you for the reply which is useful.

I also tried to Install numpy with intel mkl 9.1
I still used gfortran for numpy installation as intel mkl 9.1 supports gnu
compiler.

I only uncomment these lines for site.cfg in  site.cfg.example

[mkl]
library_dirs = /usr/physics/intel/mkl/lib/32
include_dirs = /usr/physics/intel/mkl/include
lapack_libs = mkl_lapack

then I tested the numpy with 

> python
>>import numpy
>>a = numpy.random.randn(6000, 6000)
>>numpy.dot(a, a)

This time, only one cpu was used.  Does it mean that our installed intel mkl
9.1 is not threaded?
I don't think so.  We have used it for openMP parallelization for quite a
while.

Thanks!

Sue