Re: BLAS/LAPACK implementations

[Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>]

Le lundi 08 février 2010 à 14:44 -0500, Adam C Powell IV a écrit :
> On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 14:44 +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > Hello Adam,
> > 
> > Le lundi 08 février 2010 à 08:39 -0500, Adam C Powell IV a écrit :
> > > 
> > > I know that ATLAS has its own API as well, but it was nice back in the
> > > day to be able to build to the netlib API, and then swap them back at
> > > forth at runtime using update-alternatives.
> > Are you sure ? That API is supposed to be the BLAS one.
> 
> Of course, I meant that I think ATLAS has its own additional calls, as
> well as the standard netlib BLAS API.  Sorry I wasn't clear.
Indeed. Atlas has some Lapack functions in it.
If you stick to the BLAS API, it will most probably work with Atlas. 

Btw, I am going to try finalizing the port of Atlas 3.8.X on other archs
this week.

Sylvestre