Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff on Windows

2014-04-12 Thread Sturla Molden
Eelco Hoogendoorn wrote: > I wonder: how hard would it be to create a more 21th-century oriented BLAS, > relying more on code generation tools, and perhaps LLVM/JITting? > > Wouldn't we get ten times the portability with one-tenth the lines of code? > Or is there too much dark magic going on in

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff on Windows

2014-04-12 Thread Eelco Hoogendoorn
I wonder: how hard would it be to create a more 21th-century oriented BLAS, relying more on code generation tools, and perhaps LLVM/JITting? Wouldn't we get ten times the portability with one-tenth the lines of code? Or is there too much dark magic going on in BLAS for such an approach to come clo

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff on Windows

2014-04-11 Thread Sturla Molden
On 11/04/14 04:44, Matthew Brett wrote: > I've been working on a general wiki page on building numerical stuff on > Windows: > > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/wiki/Numerical-software-on-Windows I am worried that the conclusion will be that there is no viable BLAS alternative on Windows... St

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff on Windows

2014-04-11 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Sturla Molden wrote: > Matthew Brett wrote: > >> Man, they have an awful license, making it quite useless for >> open-source: http://www.pgroup.com/doc/LICENSE.txt > > Awful, and insanely expensive. :-( > > And if you look at ACML, you will find that the MSV

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff on Windows

2014-04-11 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Aron Ahmadia wrote: > Thanks Matthew for putting this page together. > > The OpenBLAS guys have been accepting/merging pull requests (their GitHub > tree shows 26 contributors and no open pull requests), and I know that > several people from the Python and Ju

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff on Windows

2014-04-11 Thread Aron Ahmadia
Thanks Matthew for putting this page together. The OpenBLAS guys have been accepting/merging pull requests (their GitHub tree shows 26 contributors and no open pull requests), and I know that several people from the Python and Julia community have gotten pull requests merged. I modified your comm

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff on Windows

2014-04-11 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Carl Kleffner wrote: > Hi, > > a small correction: a recent octave for windows is here: > http://mxeoctave.osuv.de > > see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.maintainers/38124 ... > Binary of octave 3.8.0 on windows is now prepared in voluntary con

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff on Windows

2014-04-11 Thread Sturla Molden
Matthew Brett wrote: > Man, they have an awful license, making it quite useless for > open-source: http://www.pgroup.com/doc/LICENSE.txt Awful, and insanely expensive. :-( And if you look at ACML, you will find that the MSVC compatible version is built with the PG compiler. (There is an Intel i

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff on Windows

2014-04-11 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Sturla Molden wrote: > Matthew Brett wrote: > >> """ >> This library contains an adaptation of the legacy cblas interface to BLAS for >> C++ AMP. At this point almost all interfaces are not implemented. One >> exception is the ampblas_saxpy and ampblas_daxpy

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff on Windows

2014-04-11 Thread Sturla Molden
Matthew Brett wrote: > """ > This library contains an adaptation of the legacy cblas interface to BLAS for > C++ AMP. At this point almost all interfaces are not implemented. One > exception is the ampblas_saxpy and ampblas_daxpy which serve as a > template for the > implementation of other routi

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff on Windows

2014-04-11 Thread Carl Kleffner
Hi, a small correction: a recent octave for windows is here: http://mxeoctave.osuv.de see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.maintainers/38124 ... Binary of octave 3.8.0 on windows is now prepared in voluntary contribution by Markus Bergholz. a discussion about OpenBLAS on the octave

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff on Windows

2014-04-10 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Sturla Molden wrote: > Matthew Brett wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've been working on a general wiki page on building numerical stuff on >> Windows: >> >> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/wiki/Numerical-software-on-Windows >> >> I'm hoping to let Microsoft know what p

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff on Windows

2014-04-10 Thread Sturla Molden
Matthew Brett wrote: > Hi, > > I've been working on a general wiki page on building numerical stuff on > Windows: > > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/wiki/Numerical-software-on-Windows > > I'm hoping to let Microsoft know what problems we're having, and > seeing whether we numericists can share

[Numpy-discussion] Wiki page for building numerical stuff on Windows

2014-04-10 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, I've been working on a general wiki page on building numerical stuff on Windows: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/wiki/Numerical-software-on-Windows I'm hoping to let Microsoft know what problems we're having, and seeing whether we numericists can share some work - us and R and Julia and Octav