Re: [R] GotoBLAS2 with multiple cores

2013-12-01 Thread Stefan Evert
Your report sounds somewhat similar to problems I encountered with OpenBLAS on Ubuntu Linux (which is a maintained version of GotoBLAS; I couldn't get the latter to compile properly). OpenBLAS uses OpenMP for parallelization. Once linked into R, other OpenMP-based code would only use a single

Re: [R] GotoBLAS2 with multiple cores

2013-11-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This really is the wrong list (R-devel or R-SIG-HPC?): see the posting guide. But there are two issues. - How your BLAS controls its core usage (which is in its documentation). - How your third-party package interacts with a BLAS which uses multiple cores, and for that you need to ask the pac

[R] GotoBLAS2 with multiple cores

2013-11-24 Thread Safiye Celik
Hi, I am trying to use GotoBLAS2 on R 3.0 on Unix. I downloaded GotoBLAS2 source code from TACC web site, compiled it, and replaced libRblas.so with libgoto2.so, following the instructions at the link http://www.rochester.edu/college/gradstudents/jolmsted/files/computing/BLAS.pdf. The simple matri