Re: [R-sig-hpc] License of GotoBLAS was changed to BSD
I am now working on a removing of bug.
# The known bug on Win64 now.
2011/1/25 Soeren Sonnenburg <sonne@debian.org>:
> 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
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