No Cost Options for Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL), Support yourself, Royalty-Free

The Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL), the high performance math library for x86 and x86-64, is available for free for everyone (click here now to register and download). Purchasing is only necessary if you want access to Intel® Premier Support (direct 1:1 private support from Intel), older versions of the library or access to other tools in Intel® Parallel Studio XE. Intel continues to actively develop and support this very powerful library - and everyone can benefit from that!

Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL) is a very popular library product from Intel that accelerates math processing routines to increase application performance. Intel® MKL includes highly vectorized and threaded Linear Algebra, Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT), Vector Math and Statistics functions. The easiest way to take advantage of all of that processing power is to use a carefully optimized computing math library; even the best compiler can’t compete with the level of performance possible from a hand-optimized library. If your application already relies on the BLAS or LAPACK functionality, simply re-link with Intel® MKL to get better performance on Intel and compatible architectures.

Intel® MKL is most often obtained with the Intel® Compilers and all the other Intel® Performance Libraries in various products from Intel. It can be obtained with tools for analysis, debugging and tuning, tools for MPI and the Intel® MPI Library by acquiring the Intel® Parallel Studio XE. Did you know that some of these are available for free?

Here is a guide to various ways to obtain the latest version of the Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL) for free without access to Intel® Premier Support (get support by posting to the Intel Math Kernel Library forum). Anytime you want, the full suite of tools (Intel® Parallel Studio XE) with Intel® Premier Support and access to previous library versions can be purchased worldwide.

Free licenses for certain users has always been an important dimension in our offerings. One thing that really distinguishes Intel is that we sell excellent tools and provide second-to-none support for software developers who buy our tools. We provide multiple options - and we hope you will exactly what you need in one or our options.