We have a bug report for various OpenBLAS versions too, but I haven't
had time to invesstigate it.

Parts of it may be SkylakeX related.

On 5/7/19 6:32 PM, Mikael Öhman wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> I can also confirm these issues. I tried rebuilding OpenBLAS+R after the
> fix in #7180, but I still saw the same problems.
> Very large matrix-matrix multiplications randomly gave the wrong result.
> Very large errors. The larger the matrix, the more frequent the errors.
> 
> In the end, I compiled an intel-version (but I had to remove a few
> extensions that didn't build) and removed my Foss version from our
> installations.
> 
> Perhaps it's related to hardware; I saw this on happen skylake servers.
> I haven't had time to check if this
> https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues/8197
> also affects 0.3.1
> 
> Best regards, Mikael
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 6:12 PM Thomas Eylenbosch
> <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello____
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     Some of our end users reported a calculation issue with matrices
>     when they are working with a foss/2018b module____
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     I reproduced this error with Python and R that are compiled with the
>     foss/2018b toolchain, the output returns unexcepted results. ____
> 
>     Then I reproduced this error with Python and R that are compiled
>     with the foss/2016b toolchain  , then it gives me the expected
>     behavior. ____
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>     __ __
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>     You can reproduce this error with the following github repository: ____
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>     https://github.com/eylenth/Openblas_matrix_issue____
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>     I have also tried to recompile the OpenBLAS-0.3.1-GCC-7.3.0-2.30.eb
>      easyconfig file with “toolchainopts = {'vectorize': False}” ( cfr.
>     https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues/7180)____
> 
>     But is still giving me unexpected behavior____
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>     Can someone try to reproduce the error with the R/Python(foss/2018b)
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