diff --git a/.github/runners/actions-runner-ubuntu-oneapi-2024-1.dockerfile b/.github/runners/actions-runner-ubuntu-oneapi-2024-1.dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5edd699
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/runners/actions-runner-ubuntu-oneapi-2024-1.dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+# Use Intel OneAPI 2024.1 devel image with ubuntu 22.04 OS
+FROM intel/oneapi-basekit:2024.1.0-devel-ubuntu22.04
+
+ARG RUNNER_VERSION=2.311.0
+# Docker and Docker Compose arguments
+
+# Use 1001 and 121 for compatibility with GitHub-hosted runners
+ARG RUNNER_UID=1000
+ARG DOCKER_GID=1001
+
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
+# Install necessary packages
+RUN apt-get update -y \
+    && apt-get install -y software-properties-common \
+    && add-apt-repository -y ppa:git-core/ppa \
+    && apt-get update -y \
+    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    build-essential \
+    curl \
+    ca-certificates \
+    dnsutils \
+    ftp \
+    git \
+    uuid-dev \
+    iproute2 \
+    iputils-ping \
+    jq \
+    libunwind8 \
+    locales \
+    netcat \
+    openssh-client \
+    parallel \
+    python3-pip \
+    rsync \
+    shellcheck \
+    sudo \
+    telnet \
+    time \
+    tzdata \
+    unzip \
+    upx \
+    wget \
+    lsb-release \
+    openssl \
+    manpages-dev \
+    zip \
+    zstd \
+    && ln -sf /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python \
+    && ln -sf /usr/bin/pip3 /usr/bin/pip \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Update alternatives for GCC and related tools
+RUN update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-11 110 \
+                         --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-11 \
+                         --slave /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-11 \
+                         --slave /usr/bin/gcc-ar gcc-ar /usr/bin/gcc-ar-11 \
+                         --slave /usr/bin/gcc-ranlib gcc-ranlib /usr/bin/gcc-ranlib-11 && \
+    update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/cpp cpp /usr/bin/cpp-11 110
+
+# Download latest git-lfs version
+RUN curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | bash && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends git-lfs
+
+RUN adduser --disabled-password --gecos "" --uid $RUNNER_UID runner \
+    && groupadd docker --gid $DOCKER_GID \
+    && usermod -aG sudo runner \
+    && usermod -aG docker runner \
+    && echo "%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" > /etc/sudoers \
+    && echo "Defaults env_keep += \"DEBIAN_FRONTEND\"" >> /etc/sudoers
+
+ENV HOME=/home/runner
+
+# cd into the user directory, download and unzip the github actions runner
+RUN cd /home/runner && mkdir actions-runner && cd actions-runner \
+    && curl -O -L https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v${RUNNER_VERSION}/actions-runner-linux-x64-${RUNNER_VERSION}.tar.gz \
+    && tar xzf ./actions-runner-linux-x64-${RUNNER_VERSION}.tar.gz
+
+RUN chown -R runner:runner /home/runner && /home/runner/actions-runner/bin/installdependencies.sh
+
+ADD start.sh start.sh
+
+RUN chmod +x start.sh
+
+USER runner
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["./start.sh"]
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diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 2afbd94..e16f0a3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -91,6 +91,14 @@ jobs:
             vulkan: true
             sccache: true
             sccache-conf-path: "/tmp/sccache.conf"
+          - os: "linux"
+            name: "amd64-mkl-2024-1"
+            runs-on: "ubuntu-22-04-oneapi-2024-1"
+            cmake-flags: "-DLLAMA_NATIVE=ON -DLLAMA_BLAS=ON -DLLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR=Intel10_64lp -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx"
+            run-e2e: false
+            vulkan: false
+            sccache: false
+            sccache-conf-path: "/tmp/sccache.conf"
           - os: "linux"
             name: "amd64-avx2-cuda-11-7"
             runs-on: "ubuntu-20-04-cuda-11-7"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b937881..838e582 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -59,6 +59,13 @@ If you don't have git, you can download the source code as a file archive from [
   make build-example-server CMAKE_EXTRA_FLAGS="-DLLAMA_CUDA=ON"
   ```
 
+- **On Linux with Intel oneMKL:**
+
+  ```bash
+  source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh
+  make build-example-server CMAKE_EXTRA_FLAGS="-DLLAMA_BLAS=ON -DLLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR=Intel10_64lp -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx -DLLAMA_NATIVE=ON"
+  ``` 
+
 # Quickstart
 **Step 1: Downloading a Model**