On Wednesday 05 February 2003 23:26, Matthias Troyer wrote: > On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 04:52 PM, Toon Knapen wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:27, Matthias Troyer wrote: > >> After we get the regrssion tests to work, there will be a special > >> challenge for ublas or MTL-3: Calling the BLAS routine where > >> appropriate will be essential in getting any decent performance on > >> these types of CPUs. Does anybody know what the progress is on calling > >> BLAS from ublas where appropriate? > > > > The BLAS and LAPACK bindings for ublas are not complete yet but the > > most important functions are available. > > Great. Is this part of the boost CVS
It's in the sandbox. If you're not familiar with the sandbox, drop me a line. > > > > Recently, Joerg started adding blocked operations (which deteriorate > > performance > > on vector-processors) so in the future we might need configuration > > macros to > > indicate if we're on superscalar or vector machines. > > That will indeed be useful once we start running large production codes > with sparse matrices on vector machines. For dense matrices the BLAS > calls should take care of the optimization? Again an advantage of using vendor-tune blas ;-) _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
