On Jan 25, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Douglas Bates wrote: > Has anyone tried linking R against an accelerated BLAS like Atlas > or K. Goto's BLAS? I know that Goto's BLAS for the Opteron are > multithreaded and can use a dual core processor effectively. I > presume the same is true for dual core Intel processors. >
Yes, I was using ptATLAS (which compiles fine on OS X) and it uses both cores resulting in a bit less than half the time compared to vecLib which doesn't use threads. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
