An optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2

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OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version. The project is supported by the Lab of Parallel Software and Computational Science, ISCAS. http://www.rdcps.ac.cn

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OpenBLAS-0.3.11.tar.gz 0012326482 11.8 MB
README.HPC.SUSE 0000000889 889 Bytes
README.SUSE 0000000851 851 Bytes
_constraints 0000000373 373 Bytes
_multibuild 0000000180 180 Bytes
fix-build.patch 0000000366 366 Bytes
openblas-noexecstack.patch 0000001216 1.19 KB
openblas-s390.patch 0000001363 1.33 KB
openblas.changes 0000046730 45.6 KB
openblas.spec 0000014618 14.3 KB
Revision 37 (latest revision is 61)
Dominique Leuenberger's avatar Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar_suse) accepted request 843166 from Ismail Dönmez's avatar Ismail Dönmez (namtrac) (revision 37)
- Update _constraints to use 12GB RAM on x86_64 

- Update to version 0.3.11
  common:
  * Reduced the default BLAS3_MEM_ALLOC_THRESHOLD (used as an upper
    limit for placing temporary arrays on the stack) to be compatible
    with a stack size of 1mb (as imposed by the JAVA runtime library)
  * Added mixed-precision dot function SBDOT and utility functions
    shstobf16, shdtobf16, sbf16tos and dbf16tod to convert between
    single or double precision float arrays and bfloat16 arrays
  * Fixed prototypes of LAPACK_?ggsvp and LAPACK_?ggsvd functions
    in lapack.h
  * Fixed underflow and rounding errors in LAPACK SLANV2 and DLANV2
    (causing miscalculations in e.g. SHSEQR/DHSEQR, LAPACK issue #263)
  * Fixed workspace calculation in LAPACK ?GELQ (LAPACK issue #415)
  * Fixed several bugs in the LAPACK testsuite
  * Improved performance of TRMM and TRSM for certain problem sizes
  * Fixed infinite recursions and workspace miscalculations in ReLAPACK
  * CMAKE builds no longer require pkg-config for creating the .pc file
  * Makefile builds no longer misread NO_CBLAS=0 or NO_LAPACK=0 as
    enabling these options
  * Fixed detection of gfortran when invoked through an mpi wrapper
  * Improve thread reinitialization performance with OpenMP after a fork
  * Added support for building only the subset of the library required
    for a particular precision by specifying BUILD_SINGLE, BUILD_DOUBLE
  * Optional function name prefixes and suffixes are now correctly
    reflected in the generated cblas.h
  * Added CMAKE build support for the LAPACK and multithreading tests
  power:
  * Added optimized support for POWER10
Comments 7

Andre Barros's avatar

Please, update to OpenBLAS to 3.17, as some optimizations were causing segfaults and reverted. See: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/blob/develop/Changelog.txt.


Andre Barros's avatar

It seems that octave 6.3.0 build failures (on test phase) may be associated to this on Tumbleweed.


Andre Barros's avatar

OK, this really needs a better explanation. I have Tumbleweed and Leap 15.3 installed on different computers, and on both of them I use the Science repo to provide some more packages I need. Downgrading to default versions (3.13 on Leap and 3.14 on Tumbleweed) fixes the problem with Octave, as I was able to build version 6.3 and also run the tests (make check-local) without unknown failures. It probably affects other numerical packages too.

Regards, André



Andre Barros's avatar

Hi,

Now it is something less trivial (or, perhaps, more). Julia version 1.8.5 (and probably some older versions of 1.8.x series too) needs integer indexes of vectors and matrices to be 64 bits, that means, there is a need to build adjusted "flavors" of some libraries.

For openBLAS, the "flavored" version must be compiled with "INTERFACE64=1" option.

Of course, other libraries that are linked against openBLAS will need "flavored" versions too. SuiteSparse, qrupdate, sundials and arpack-ng, at least.

The relevant sources of information are: https://docs.octave.org/v7.3.0/Compiling-Octave-with-64_002dbit-Indexing.html https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57771 https://github.com/Reference-LAPACK/lapack/issues/666

On my computer, I built "proto" packages with the needed adjustments, but, of course, the "ideal" way is to have an established standard for package and libraries names.

It should be noted that, once "flavored" libraries are built, not only we will be able to build Julia but also a special version of Octave.

May I collaborate with the effort to make it happen, let me know.


Andre Barros's avatar

OK, I will fork the current project so that my modifications can be debated. Still, I have one doubt, how do I pass a definition to rpmbuild when using build.opensuse.org infrastructure?

What I mean is that, on my computer, to generate the binary package with 64 bits indexes, I use: rpmbuild --define "index64 1" openblas.spec

I have no idea how to do this under build.opensuse.org.


Andre Barros's avatar

Branched. Will do the same on SuiteSparse, arpack-ng, qrupdate and sundials, but would appreciate if I get an input about what may be the best practices, names and definitions to be used, or if it seems to be OK the way I did.

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