Re: [R] BLAS with glmnet

2013-04-14 Thread peter dalgaard
On Apr 12, 2013, at 22:49 , Brian Pasley wrote: > I'm using a multithreaded BLAS library with R and I see the expected > speed improvements with matrix multiplication, svd, etc. However, > glmnet continues to use only a single CPU. Since this package is > compiled from Fortran, is this the expe

[R] BLAS with glmnet

2013-04-12 Thread Brian Pasley
I'm using a multithreaded BLAS library with R and I see the expected speed improvements with matrix multiplication, svd, etc. However, glmnet continues to use only a single CPU. Since this package is compiled from Fortran, is this the expected behavior or is there a way to compile the glmnet pack

Re: [R] BLAS

2012-01-17 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Scott Raynaud wrote: > I'm setting up an Ubuntu virtual machine that will use 4-Intel Xeon CPU x5650. > I'd like to compile R with a BLAS but the question is whcih one.  Seems > like the only free ones are GotoBLAS which I'm not sure is being maintained > for newer

[R] BLAS

2012-01-17 Thread Scott Raynaud
I'm setting up an Ubuntu virtual machine that will use 4-Intel Xeon CPU x5650.  I'd like to compile R with a BLAS but the question is whcih one.  Seems like the only free ones are GotoBLAS which I'm not sure is being maintained for newer CPUs and OpenBLAS for Loongson CPUs.  I saw a favorable re