Thanks. I appreciate the info. I saw that Goto was working for Microsoft and did wonder about the future of the library.
Jack Poulson writes: > Dave, > > GotoBLAS is roughly the same speed as MKL for level 3 BLAS (faster in some > cases, slower in others). With that said, Goto now works for Microsoft and > is no longer maintaining the library. It remains to be seen whether or not > anyone will be filling his shoes for new architectures. If MKL is > available, I would go ahead and use it. > > Jack > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Dave Nystrom <dnystrom1 at > comcast.net>wrote: > > > I was wondering if anyone has experimented with using Goto BLAS with Petsc > > for algorithms that make heavy use of blas and if there is any idea how it > > compares to Intel MKL. > > > > I'm finding that using Intel MKL with umfpack is speeding up my sparse > > direct > > solves by about 2x. I'm just using default parameters with umfpack and > > have > > not yet tried to tune any of the various configurable parameters. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dave > >
