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- From: yzarn@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: blas for linpack etc
- Keywords: blas linpack eispack lapack
- Message-ID: <6745@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 19:49:13 GMT
- References: <1992Sep14.082905.29909@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <1992Sep14.132400.12265@fs7.ece.cmu.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep14.132400.12265@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> woodford@fourier.ece.cmu.edu (Paul Woodford) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep14.082905.29909@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> cally@solar.maths.monash.edu.au (Dr Paul Cally) writes:
- >>The underlying linear algebra package used by linpack, eispack, and LAPACK is
- >>called blas. Does anyone have a version of this optimized for DECstations?
- >>Some manufacturers (eg IBM) actually provide a very fast machine code form
- >>with their workstations. Not DEC, I guess?!
- >>
- >>--- Paul Cally
- >
- >There is a libblas.a in /usr/lib/cmplrs/cc2.1/libblas.a on Ultrix 4.2a, but
- >it doesn't include level 3 blas or double-complex level 2 blas. Furthermore
- >I've tried linking with the routines which are there and they don't seem any
- >faster than those that I've compiled myself. Pretty silly, huh?
- >
- >If you find any optimized versions out there, please let me know. If anyone
- >from DEC is reading, please give us an optimized blas library.
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- I am also very interested with optimized version of the libblas.a (all 3
- levels) for the DECstations, Ultrix 4.2a.
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