Subject: NA Digest, V. 06, # 32

From: "Kreinovich, Vladik" <vladik@utep.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:17:04 -0600
Subject: Interval software from Intel

Dear intervallers and those who use interval methods in real
applications,

I want to inform the interval community about new Interval Software
from Intel Co. The fact that Intel Co. develops pure interval
library tells that interval analysis becomes more and more popular
in real applications and allows to solve wide class of real
problems.

So, there is interval library in Intel Math Kernel Library which
includes interval arithmetic (standard and two complex) and the set
of unique interval linear solvers. The solvers computes enclosures,
either sharp or fast, of the solution set to interval linear systems
of equations, check properties of interval matrices; some part of
the solvers works with complex intervals. Everyone knows that most
of interval problems is NP-hard and because of that the interval
routines have high level of optimization (both algorithmically and
low-level) which provides rather good performance.  In the future,
we have a plan to make, from the interval library, a kind of
"Interval LAPACK".

Everyone can try the library for free - free version of MKL may be
downloaded from the page
http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/perflib/mkl/index.htm

You can put your questions or suggestions what you want to see in
the library onto MKL forum at
http://softwareforums.intel.com/ISN/Community/en-US/forums/1273/ShowForum.aspx

Alexander Bondar Intel MKL Team Novosibirsk, Russia

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