R devel - Oct 2022 - Linking to Intel's MKL on Windows

Hi Christine,

MKL is a closed-source commercial product (yes, one can get it for free, but it
is not libre/open-source software).

Best,
Wolfgang
>-----Original Message-----
>From: R-devel [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of
Christine
>Stawitz - NOAA Federal via R-devel
>Sent: Friday, 30 September, 2022 18:46
>To: r-devel at r-project.org
>Subject: [Rd] Linking to Intel's MKL on Windows
>
>Hi,
>
>Recently I became aware that Microsoft R Open provides accelerated matrix
>algebra computations through Intel's Math Kernel Libraries. However, the
>version of R shipped with the Microsoft R Open is too out of date to be
>able to use concurrently with other dependencies while developing our
>package. This thread suggests a way to get the updated matrix libraries
>with a more recent version of R, however it is unlikely to be approved by
>our IT admin since those of us in government agencies aren't typically
>given admin privileges: Linking Intel's Math Kernel Library (MKL) to R
on
>Windows - Stack Overflow
><https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38090206/linking-intels-math-kernel-library-
>mkl-to-r-on-windows>
>
>Is there a reason why CRAN doesn't provide a version of R with the
updated
>libraries such that developers don't have to recompile R or copy .dlls
>around as described above? It would help those of us running software with
>slow-running matrix calculations in R.
>
>Thanks,
>Christine
>
>--
>Christine C. Stawitz, PhD. (pronouns: she/her)
>
>National Stock Assessment Program Modeling Team
>
>NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology |  U.S. Department of
>Commerce
>
>Mobile: 206-617-2060
>
>www.fisheries.noaa.gov

Maybe you can find out more about Microsoft's development/release 
process for MRO and why they're still on 4.0.2 (from June 2020)?  I 
followed the "user forum" link on their web page, but it appears to be
a
generic Windows forum ...

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum%20=ropen

    I might tweet at @revodavid (David Smith) to see if there's any more 
information available about the MRO release schedule ...

   good luck,
    Ben Bolker




On 2022-10-01 12:00 p.m., Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (NP)
wrote:
> Hi Christine,
> 
> MKL is a closed-source commercial product (yes, one can get it for free,
but it is not libre/open-source software).
> 
> Best,
> Wolfgang
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: R-devel [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of
Christine
>> Stawitz - NOAA Federal via R-devel
>> Sent: Friday, 30 September, 2022 18:46
>> To: r-devel at r-project.org
>> Subject: [Rd] Linking to Intel's MKL on Windows
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Recently I became aware that Microsoft R Open provides accelerated
matrix
>> algebra computations through Intel's Math Kernel Libraries.
However, the
>> version of R shipped with the Microsoft R Open is too out of date to be
>> able to use concurrently with other dependencies while developing our
>> package. This thread suggests a way to get the updated matrix libraries
>> with a more recent version of R, however it is unlikely to be approved
by
>> our IT admin since those of us in government agencies aren't
typically
>> given admin privileges: Linking Intel's Math Kernel Library (MKL)
to R on
>> Windows - Stack Overflow
>>
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38090206/linking-intels-math-kernel-library-
>> mkl-to-r-on-windows>
>>
>> Is there a reason why CRAN doesn't provide a version of R with the
updated
>> libraries such that developers don't have to recompile R or copy
.dlls
>> around as described above? It would help those of us running software
with
>> slow-running matrix calculations in R.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Christine
>>
>> --
>> Christine C. Stawitz, PhD. (pronouns: she/her)
>>
>> National Stock Assessment Program Modeling Team
>>
>> NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology |  U.S. Department of
>> Commerce
>>
>> Mobile: 206-617-2060
>>
>> www.fisheries.noaa.gov
> 
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