On 09/22/2013 09:32 PM, Susi Lehtola wrote:
I might mention that OpenBLAS (successor to GotoBLAS) is in Fedora, which is often 2x faster than ATLAS. But, it's only available on ix86 and x86_64. It does have runtime CPU detection, though for the 20-odd CPUs supported.
Could you please add more details? I can hardly imagine a situation where properly tuned Atlas is below 50% of maximum possible floating point performance. Packaged Atlas tuned on a completely different machine can of course be slow. The theory goes that if you are into serious high-performance computing, you are willing and able to rebuild a few packages. Plus there is a high chance that you are using some more exotic architecture than those power-hungry x86_64.
On the other hand pre-packaged Atlas is probably the second worst alternative for desktop use cases (the worst being canonical Blas).
For the record: atlas-3.10.1-1.fc21.armv7hl.rpm is available. I do not have any Arm machine to test except the Fedora builders, any feedback is welcome.
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