Intel’s open-source teams have been issuing a slew of new packages in recent days. Among the notable Intel open-source packages crossing my radar in recent days include: OpenVKL 0.9 – Various VDB improvements, build system updates, various fixes, a variety of internal API changes, and also providing reference binaries now for Linux / macOS / Windows. This release also fixes an issue I had with OpenVKL for the last time I tried using it as a benchmark, so there is now also an OpenVKL test profile and we will be using it in our future benchmark articles where relevant.
oneDNN 1.3 – Formerly known as DNNL and before that MKL-DNN, this deep learning library has a variety of performance optimizations including prepping for Intel “Cooper Lake” Xeons. There is also performance improvements as already outlined. Our test profile for it has also been updated in preparation for future CPUs.
[Source: Phoronix]
