Hello, I figured some of you care: [start announcement] Guys,
I have released ATLAS 3.7.38, the Changelog is: > >ATLAS 3.7.38 released 10/05/07, changes from 3.7.37: > > * Added new install guide, ATLAS/doc/atlas_install.pdf > > * Updated docs > > * Added F77 testing wrappers for POSV and GESV, so slvtst can test F77 > > iface > > * Expanded configure support for AIX, but build still dies > > * Configure support and flags for G4 > > * Added arch defaults for: > > - Pentium III > > - G4 using apple's hacked gcc 3.1 > > - HAMMER32SSE3 > > - HAMMER32SSE2 The main thing is the new install guide. My guess is that this release will wind up being the new stable. I'm first going to check if I can't get things working on AIX this weekend. Whether I do or not, I hope to release the new stable at the end of next week, so I'll be rerunning the full ATLAS tester on several platforms, and then releasing the mythological 3.8.0. There are several things that ought to be in there. In particular, users have sent me patches to allow configure to work on interix (AKA Windows services for Unix), and to make "make install" care about the dynamic libs. I would really like to have had these in, but I have to stop the bleeding at some point and release, and this is it. I figure I'll issue a stable patch (3.8.1) before too terribly long anyway, and hopefully I'll get some of these improvements in, along with bug fixes and other things people find. So, if you could go through the new tarfile and scope for out-of-date docs, or things that go wrong on your platform, I'd appreciate it. If you have machines, and can run the full tester next week, that'd be great too. Thanks, Clint ************************************************************************** ** R. Clint Whaley, PhD ** Assist Prof, UTSA ** www.cs.utsa.edu/~whaley ** ************************************************************************** [end announcement] I will update Sage's optional ATLAS spkg tomorrow. The question is if anybody wants threaded ATLAS enabled by some magic flag? I wanted to try matrix multiplications via LinBox with 2,4 or 8 cores on sage.math and see how large the matrices have to become to see any payoff by using multiple cores. Also the interesting question is how many cores can be used before things start to slow down again. I will also try this with the GotoBLAS. Recent multi threaded GotoBLAS releases aren't properly supported by LinBox at the moment (the conf tests needs to add -lpthread for that), but I will fix that too and see how it works. If anybody wants to join the fun let me know and we should coordinate this via IRC. Cheers, Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
