[Math-atlas-results] intel mkl 5.1 on p4

[Michael Z. <mic...@po...>]

Hi!

Does anybody know how the intel mkl 5.1 for linux compares to atlas on a
pentium 4? I'm thinking about using it with mpb
(http://ab-initio.mit.edu/mpb/). It's author says

>MPB requires high performance for multiplication of special
>"tall, thin" matrices, which ATLAS has special code for, whereas many
>vendor codes are tuned for the squarish matrices (that most often appear
>in benchmarks).

So will it be worth trying mkl? Or do I simply confuse two things: optimized
source code for linear algebra and special machine code generation for the
p4-series?

Thanks in advance
Michael Zedler