On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 16:44 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On 26 November 2010 at 23:10, Thomas Weber wrote: > | On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:53:09AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | > Wouldn't we want GotoBLAS2 in Debian now that it is BSD-licensed? > | > | Uh, are you guys aware of > | http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/gotoblas2/faq/ ? > | > | "GotoBLAS is no longer under active development." > > We do. > > The whole BSD release is presumably of consequence of Mr Goto no longer being > at U of Texas and working on it. > > But by getting it into Debian we also give it more exposure and who knows > maybe some other folks will pick it up. In the meantime its performance is > still better than Atlas in most cases (as e.g. shown in my benchmarking paper > / blog posts -- see http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/code/gcbd/ Is there any news / progress on this? Seems like goto blas2 is really fast and worth the effort http://mikiobraun.tumblr.com/post/2795371079/jblas-1-2-0-with-gotoblas2-22-gflops-peak-vs-14-gflops Soeren -- For the one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic. -- Arthur C. Clarke, 1962
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