On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Scott Raynaud <scott.rayn...@yahoo.com> 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 CPUs and OpenBLAS for Loongson CPUs. I saw a favorable report > on OpenBLAS > (http://www.rochester.edu/college/gradstudents/jolmsted/files/computing/BLAS_Comparison.pdf), > but I'm not sure it's the right thing for my CPUs. The webpage for OpenBLAS > says, "On X86 box, compile this library for loongson3a CPU." Any opinions > on whether this will work? If not, any suggestions on another free BLAS? >
I've been using ATLAS (http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/) with good success. Peter ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
