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<body>I am evaluating Intel MKL 9.0 beta which has a new version of the Pardiso solver included.<BR>
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Having done some initial testing with IPOPT it seems to work fine (apart from an apparent one-off initialisation overhead of ~ 1 sec. - I haven't investigated this yet).<BR>
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The comment in the IPOPT documentation is...<BR>
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"Note: Pardiso is included in Intel's MKL library. However, that version does not yet include the changes done by the Pardiso developers to make the linear solver work smoothly with I<FONT size=2><SMALL>POPT</SMALL>."</FONT><BR>
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I couldn't tell from this whether the fact that it now compiles, links and runs OK is good confirmation that the required changes are now included in <FONT>MKL. O</FONT>r whether the changes were more subtle and that there may still be an issue with certain problems.<BR>
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I would be very grateful for insights into this. It looks promising, anyway;)<BR>
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