Thanks a lot for the information. :D It looks like its true what some says about open source code:
A person with know-how will get a system free of charge. A smart person with know-how will get rich on selling a system that is free of charge. Best regards Per Lindstrom > Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 at 11:36am, Robert G. Brown wrote >> >> Actually, Matlab's lapack *is* ATLAS. They provide several copies of >> it, >> compiled for different processors, that get called based on a runtime >> architecture check. My R13 install has atlas_Athlon.so, atlas_P4.so, >> atlas_PII.so, atlas_PIII.so, and atlas_PPro.so. In addition, there are >> directions floating about for compiling your own optimized ATLAS on your >> particular box and substituting that for the ones that come with Matlab. >> > > This is much like the setup with atlas on Debian, where quite a few > packages now are transparently accelerated via the selection of an > atlas .so appropriate for the running machine. Custom builds/timings > are supported too with one command. > > On i386, we have PII, sse1, sse2, and 3dnow builds > On ppc, generic and altivec > On sparc, generic and v9 > On alpha, generic and ev5 > Others just have generic builds at present. > > Here are a list of packages making use of this facility. Packages > using the libs mentioned below also thereby use the atlas > blas/lapack. > > siptoolbox > refblas3-test > r-cran-quadprog > r-cran-mgcv > r-cran-kernsmooth > r-base-core > python2.3-numeric-ext > python2.3-numarray-ext > python2.2-numeric-ext > python2.2-numarray-ext > python2.1-numeric-ext > octave2.1 > octave-statdataml > octave-plplot > octave-forge > libpetsc2.2.0 > libgretl1 > lapack3-test > lapack3 > kmatplot > gretl > gandalf1 > atlas3-test > animal0 > tela > paw-static > paw++-static > paw++ > paw > mpqc > libphtools1 > libpdflib804 > libpaw1 > libmathlib1 > libluminate3 > libisajet758 > libherwig59 > libgeant1 > libcojets1 > lapack99 > lapack > illuminator-demo > ghemical > blas-test > > > Take care, > >> -- >> Joshua Baker-LePain >> Department of Biomedical Engi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

