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Re: Including BLAS library.
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John W. Eaton |
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Re: Including BLAS library. |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:59:49 -0500 |
On 18-Mar-2005, Richard Hindmarsh <address@hidden> wrote:
| Goto BLAS.
| Then one gets multi-threaded matrix multiplications, unlike some other
| commercial matrix-based
| interpreters. Typically, with one processor (Xeon 1.7GHz) I get around
| 2.5 Gflops and 4.2 Gflops
| for dual processors for a 1000x1000 matrix multiiplication with the Goto
| libraries.
The Goto BLAS does not appear to have a free software license (I did
not see a clear statement of the license terms, just a "please do not
distribute" statement and apparently no sources available). Unless it
has a GPL-compatible license, it can't be the default BLAS for Octave.
jwe
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