I would be very cautious about OpenBLAS in particular... from time to time I get complains from users that compiled code calculations in my WGCNA package crash or produce wrong answers with large data, and they all come from OpenBLAS users. I am yet to reproduce any of their crashes when using MKL and ATLAS BLAS implementations.
Just my 2 cents... Peter On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Kenny Bell <kmbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi R-devel list, > > OpenBLAS is readily available for unix-likes: > > https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/gcbd/vignettes/gcbd.pdf > > However, my questions are: > > 1) Would R-devel consider using OpenBLAS for the main distribution of R for > all platforms including Windows? > 2) If so, would R-devel set the default multi-thread level to the number of > (real) cores on a machine? > > My sense is there're a lot of wasted resources on laptops and personal > desktops around the world that could be utilised by such a switch. I > believe most unix-like users don't know about OpenBLAS and are blissfully > ignorant of the available speed gains. It seems to be quite difficult for a > typical Windows user to get this done today. > > Thanks heaps, > Kenny > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
