Intel® Math Kernel Library 11.3 Update 4 Developer Guide
The Intel MKL ILP64 libraries use the 64-bit integer type (necessary for indexing large arrays, with more than 231-1 elements), whereas the LP64 libraries index arrays with the 32-bit integer type.
The LP64 and ILP64 interfaces are implemented in the Interface layer. Link with the following interface libraries for the LP64 or ILP64 interface, respectively:
The ILP64 interface provides for the following:
The LP64 interface provides compatibility with the previous Intel MKL versions because "LP64" is just a new name for the only interface that the Intel MKL versions lower than 9.1 provided. Choose the ILP64 interface if your application uses Intel MKL for calculations with large data arrays or the library may be used so in future.
Intel MKL provides the same include directory for the ILP64 and LP64 interfaces.
The table below shows how to compile for the ILP64 and LP64 interfaces:
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Fortran |
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|---|---|
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Compiling for ILP64 |
ifort -i8 -I<mkl directory>/include ... |
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Compiling for LP64 |
ifort -I<mkl directory>/include ... |
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C or C++ |
|
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Compiling for ILP64 |
icc -DMKL_ILP64 -I<mkl directory>/include ... |
|
Compiling for LP64 |
icc -I<mkl directory>/include ... |
Linking of an application compiled with the -i8 or -DMKL_ILP64 option to the LP64 libraries may result in unpredictable consequences and erroneous output.
You do not need to change existing code if you are not using the ILP64 interface.
To migrate to ILP64 or write new code for ILP64, use appropriate types for parameters of the Intel MKL functions and subroutines:
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Integer Types |
Fortran |
C or C++ |
|---|---|---|
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32-bit integers |
INTEGER*4 or
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int |
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Universal integers for ILP64/LP64:
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INTEGER
|
MKL_INT |
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Universal integers for ILP64/LP64:
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INTEGER*8 or
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MKL_INT64 |
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FFT interface integers for ILP64/LP64 |
INTEGER
|
MKL_LONG |
To determine the type of an integer parameter of a function, use appropriate include files. For functions that support only a Fortran interface, use the C/C++ include files *.h.
The above table explains which integer parameters of functions become 64-bit and which remain 32-bit for ILP64. The table applies to most Intel MKL functions except some Vector Mathematics and Vector Statistics functions, which require integer parameters to be 64-bit or 32-bit regardless of the interface:
Vector Mathematics: The mode parameter of the functions is 64-bit.
Random Number Generators (RNG):
All discrete RNG except viRngUniformBits64 are 32-bit.
The viRngUniformBits64 generator function and vslSkipAheadStream service function are 64-bit.
Refer to the Intel MKL Developer Reference for more information.
To better understand ILP64 interface details, see also examples.
All Intel MKL function domains support ILP64 programming but FFTW interfaces to Intel MKL:
FFTW 2.x wrappers do not support ILP64.
FFTW 3.x wrappers support ILP64 by a dedicated set of functions plan_guru64.