On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Douglas Bates <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone succeeded in getting a parallel BLAS, such as Goto's BLAS, > installed on a machine running Ubuntu 11.10? > > I currently have the libatlas3gf-base package installed on a machine > with an AMD Athlon X4 processor. I tried to install the > libopenblas-base and libopenblas-dev packages but there seemed to be a > glich related to having both libopenblas and libatlas3gf installed so > that when I tried to recompile R it failed to start because one of the > ATL symbols from Atlas was undefined.
I found out what the problem was through that devious approach of reading the documentation :-) After installing libopenblas-base you need to run sudo update-alternatives --config liblapack.so.3gf and choose the library in /usr/lib/lapack. > Is it worthwhile making a custom version of Atlas? Every time I try > to compile a local version of Atlas it fails because of CPU Throttling > being enabled. I suppose I could reboot after tweaking the BIOS then > compile then shutdown then tweak the BIOS but that seems like a > complicated route to getting optimized BLAS. > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
