AMD Core Math Library (ACML) is an end-of-life
software development library released by
AMD
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. While it initially manufactur ...
. This library provides mathematical routines optimized for AMD processors.
The successor to ACML is the AMD Optimizing CPU Libraries (AOCL), a set of mostly
open source libraries compiled for
AMD64
x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64, and Intel 64) is a 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set, first released in 1999. It introduced two new modes of operation, 64-bit mode and compatibility mode, along with a new 4-level paging m ...
processors. It includes the open source
BLIS,
libFLAME,
ScaLAPACK The ScaLAPACK (or Scalable LAPACK) library includes a subset of LAPACK routines redesigned for distributed memory MIMD parallel computers. It is currently written in a Single-Program-Multiple-Data style using explicit message passing for interproc ...
,
FFTW
The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West (FFTW) is a software library for computing discrete Fourier transforms (DFTs) developed by Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
FFTW is one of the fastest fre ...
, and AOCL-Sparse, plus the original closed-source AMD LibM,
memcpy, and RNG.
Features
ACML consists of the following main components:
* A full implementation of Level 1, 2 and 3
Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms
Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) is a specification that prescribes a set of low-level routines for performing common linear algebra operations such as vector addition, scalar multiplication, dot products, linear combinations, and matrix ...
(BLAS), with optimizations for AMD Opteron processors.
* A full suite of
Linear Algebra
Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning linear equations such as:
:a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n=b,
linear maps such as:
:(x_1, \ldots, x_n) \mapsto a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n,
and their representations in vector spaces and through matrices ...
(
LAPACK
LAPACK ("Linear Algebra Package") is a standard software library for numerical linear algebra. It provides routines for solving systems of linear equations and linear least squares, eigenvalue problems, and singular value decomposition. It als ...
) routines.
* A comprehensive suite of
Fast Fourier transform (FFTs) in single-, double-, single-complex and double-complex data types.
* Fast scalar, vector, and array math transcendental library routines
*
Random Number Generator
Random number generation is a process by which, often by means of a random number generator (RNG), a sequence of numbers or symbols that cannot be reasonably predicted better than by random chance is generated. This means that the particular outc ...
s in both single- and double-precision
Supported platforms
AMD offers pre-compiled binaries for
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, w ...
,
Solaris, and
Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for ser ...
available for download. Supported compilers include
GNU Fortran
GNU Fortran or GFortran is the GNU Fortran compiler, which is part of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).
It includes full support for the Fortran 95 language, and supports large parts of the Fortran 2003 and Fortran 2008 standards. It supports ...
,
Intel Fortran Compiler
Intel Fortran Compiler, is a group of Fortran compilers from Intel for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Overview
The compilers generate code for IA-32 and Intel 64 processors and certain non-Intel but compatible processors, such as certain AMD proces ...
,
Microsoft Visual Studio,
NAG,
PathScale
PathScale Inc. was a company that developed a highly optimizing C, C++, and Fortran compiler suite for the x86-64 microprocessor architectures. It derives from the SGI compilers for the MIPS architecture R10000 processor, called MIPSPro.
Hist ...
,
PGI compiler, and
Sun Studio
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.
License
ACML has a proprietary
freeware
Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user. There is no agreed-upon set of rights, license, or EULA that defines ''freeware'' unambiguously; every publisher defines its own rules for t ...
license. The library is distributed in binary form free of charge, but cannot be freely redistributed.
ACML EULA
End-user license agreement
See also
* GPUOpen - Open-source software suite for visual effects, HPC, and GPGPU
* Framewave - formerly the AMD Performance Library
* Open64
Open64 is a free, open-source, optimizing compiler for the Itanium and x86-64 microprocessor architectures. It derives from the SGI compilers for the MIPS R10000 processor, called ''MIPSPro''. It was initially released in 2000 as GNU GPL s ...
- AMD has an Open64 compiler distribution that can be used with ACML
* Math Kernel Library
Intel oneAPI Math Kernel Library (Intel oneMKL; formerly Intel Math Kernel Library or Intel MKL) is a library of optimized math routines for science, engineering, and financial applications. Core math functions include BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, ...
(MKL)
References
External links
Streaming Computing (User Guide)
{{Numerical linear algebra
AMD software
Numerical libraries