31.03.10, 11:43, "Geoffrey Hutchison" <[email protected]>:
> > More accurately, however, I have watched while a compchem syadmin expert > > has spent an hour compiling MPQC. This requires the BLAS/LAPACK library > > which took him a considerable time to tame - and he's been through this > > before. If I'd had to do this myself (and I do know how to make make and > > configure in general terms) it would have taken me a week or probably > > longer. It was NOT trivial. > > No offense, but if a "compchem sysadmin expert" has problems with > BLAS/LAPACK and has done it before, they're not really an expert. > BLAS/LAPACK (or ATLAS) are easy to install on every Linux workstation or > server I have ever used. Indeed, on most compchem Linux machines, it's > already installed. BLAS/LAPACK supplied by CPU vendor (Intel MKL, AMD ACML) are often better. Also Goto BLAS written in asm performs well (but hasn't fast LAPACK implementation) > > http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/atlas_install/ > > BLAS/LAPACK is pre-installed on every Mac. > > Which leaves Windows. But most Windows users want pre-packaged binaries, so > it's also not a big problem. > > Cheers, > -Geoff > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss > > -- Regards, Konstantin Яндекс.Почта. Письма есть. Спама - нет. http://mail.yandex.ru/nospam/sign ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
