[ViennaCL-devel] External BLAS-Linking ... is it really necessary?

2014-02-22 Thread Philippe Tillet
Hello, I've been obtaining recently significant performance improvement out of the kernel generator, which should bring ViennaCL 1.6 extremely close (>95%) to CuBLAS (on NVidia hardware) and clAmdBlas (on AMD hardware) for BLAS1/Dense BLAS2/Dense BLAS3. There are a lot of drawbacks to maintaining

Re: [ViennaCL-devel] Ideas for Google Summer of Code?

2014-02-22 Thread Philippe Tillet
Hey everybody, My recent advances on auto-tuning gave birth to a new GSoC idea in my mind. More exactly, I've come up with something more complete around (crowd-sourced) auto-tuning and the GUI. This would include: -> Developing a portable auto-tuning GUI (as of now : BLAS1 / Dense BLAS2 / Dense

Re: [ViennaCL-devel] MSVC 11 and bicgstab.hpp

2014-02-22 Thread Karl Rupp
Hi Toby, > I don't have much expertise with MSVC, but I'm trying to build > pyviennacl, and I've got a couple of weird bugs. I've looked at the > source, but really have no idea what it's complaining about. Why can't > it resolve the type ambiguity here? > > 4>F:/src/viennacl/pyviennacl-dev/exter

[ViennaCL-devel] MSVC 11 and bicgstab.hpp

2014-02-22 Thread Toby St Clere Smithe
Hi all, I don't have much expertise with MSVC, but I'm trying to build pyviennacl, and I've got a couple of weird bugs. I've looked at the source, but really have no idea what it's complaining about. Why can't it resolve the type ambiguity here? 4>F:/src/viennacl/pyviennacl-dev/external/viennacl-