December 20th, 2011, 6:47 pm
QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteWhy would anyone bother with NAG or similar libs? It is one of the oldest, tested and robust libraries? This could be a reason for using it.Afaik MKL doesn't really even have much optimization (just some nonlinear least squares last time I checked), while NAG has a vast array of robust algos, and are still expanding it (all the way to swarms etc.). And they should have practical parallel PRNGS by now (MKL is again limited). NAG also has sorting etc...(And: I can volunteer for a boost-conform Acklam; what else?) And for an important task you might find libs with O(n) where MKL is O(n log n).Btw what do we want to use for optimization? Interfacing to GAMS would be nice
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quartz on December 19th, 2011, 11:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.