[Rd] ATLAS threaded 64 bit (Opteron) - need *.so?

[Douglas Bates]

Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> writes:

> Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> writes:
> 
> > Have you tried configuring R with Goto's BLAS
> >                 http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kgoto/
> > 
> > I haven't worked with Opteron or Athlon64 computers but I understand
> > that Goto's BLAS are very effective on those machines.  Furthermore
> > Goto's BLAS are (only) available as .so libraries so you don't need to
> > mess with creating the .so version.
> 
> I tried it, yes. Somewhat to my surprise, it seemed to be not quite as
> fast as the threaded ATLAS, but I wasn't very systematic about the
> benchmarking.
> 
> (and the Goto items have license issues, which get in the way for
> binary distributions.)

They have indicated that future releases may have a LGPL licence.