Re: [Numpy-discussion] Suggestions for GSoC Projects

2014-02-07 Thread Stéfan van der Walt
On 8 Feb 2014 04:51, "Ralf Gommers" wrote: > >> Members of the dipy team would also be interested. > > That's specifically for the spherical harmonics topic right? Right. Spherical harmonics are used as bases in many of DiPy's reconstruction algorithms. You are right, though, that gsoc would al

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Suggestions for GSoC Projects

2014-02-07 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Stéfan van der Walt wrote: > On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:21:58 +0100, Ralf Gommers wrote: > > Finding a suitable mentor for whatever project Jennifer chooses is an > > important factor in the choice of project, so I have to ask: do you have > > the bandwidth to be a men

Re: [Numpy-discussion] MKL and OpenBLAS

2014-02-07 Thread Robert Kern
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Frédéric Bastien wrote: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Robert Kern wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Matthieu Brucher >> wrote: >>> According to the discussions on the ML, they switched from GPL to MPL >>> to enable the kind of distribution numpy/scipy

Re: [Numpy-discussion] MKL and OpenBLAS

2014-02-07 Thread Frédéric Bastien
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Robert Kern wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Matthieu Brucher > wrote: >> According to the discussions on the ML, they switched from GPL to MPL >> to enable the kind of distribution numpy/scipy is looking for. They >> had some hesitations between BSD and MP

Re: [Numpy-discussion] MKL and OpenBLAS

2014-02-07 Thread Sturla Molden
Thomas Unterthiner wrote: > Sorry for going a bit off-topic, but: do you have any links to the > benchmarks? I googled around, but I haven't found anything. FWIW, on my > own machines OpenBLAS is on par with MKL (on an i5 laptop and an older > Xeon server) and actually slightly faster than A

Re: [Numpy-discussion] MKL and OpenBLAS

2014-02-07 Thread Robert Kern
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Matthieu Brucher wrote: > According to the discussions on the ML, they switched from GPL to MPL > to enable the kind of distribution numpy/scipy is looking for. They > had some hesitations between BSD and MPL, but IIRC their official > stand is to allow inclusion in