Alexei Matveev wrote:
>
> If you are concerned about performance issues AND portability then
> LAPACK(reference implementation) + ATLAS(tuned blas) may be a good choice.
> Which is, I suppose, is completelly portable.
> Performance of LAPACK relies much on BLAS performance.
> We are using this combination in our number cruncing program.
>
Hi,
ESSL already contains most of (probably all ?) the BLAS package. And I assume that it is tuned for IBM hardware. So I don't really need ATLAS. I was just wondering if there were as well an IBM vendor version of LAPACK, or if I had to compile the reference implementation instead ?
Best Regards,
Pierre
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