On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Julien Puydt <[email protected]>wrote:
> Le 23/12/2012 17:56, William Stein a écrit : > > I was at a conference a week ago with a bunch of applied mathematicians >> who are extremely experienced in high performance *numerical* computing >> (at least compared to me). One strongly suggested we simply dump ATLAS >> for OpenBLAS >> (https://github.com/xianyi/**OpenBLAS<https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS>). >> OpenBLAS does >> not support OS X, but that might be OK, since I don't think we build >> ATLAS on OS X anyways. >> >> I'm not for or against the above proposal (yet). But I'm putting it out >> there. The argument was that OpenBLAS has significant and broad >> developer momentum around it, whereas ATLAS is almost all Clint Whaley's >> project, and OpenBLAS is much easier to build. I've not verified any of >> these claims. (Both projects are I think BSD licensed.) >> > > I was all for throwing atlas a few days ago ; I have since been in touch > with Clint Whaley (reporting upstream my issues with #10508 [1]), and he > has been extremely reactive and efficient. That has definitely softened my > point of view on the matter. > > In any case, the question of atlas vs openblas can only be asked when sage > will be blas-implementation-agnostic ; Why? That's like saying the question of git vs mercurial can only be asked when sage is revision-control-system agnostic. and that is the point of this thread, if I don't err. > > Snark on #sagemath > > PS: > [1] https://sourceforge.net/**tracker/?func=detail&aid=** > 3598167&group_id=23725&atid=**379482<https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3598167&group_id=23725&atid=379482> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <sage-devel%[email protected]>. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/sage-devel?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en> > . > > > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
