[R] BLAS or ATLAS?

[Tom Colson]

Fedora Core 3

I installed the Intel MLk, 

and tried : --with-blas="-lmkl -lguide -lpthread" 

and got :  External libraries:        readline, BLAS(generic)

thus I'm assuming I'm missing something when telling config where to
look for the recently installed Intel BLAS?

thanks for all replies thus far. 


On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 19:25 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> What OS is this for?
> 
> Several OSes (Windows, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD ...) run on Xeons (and 
> there are several sorts of Xeons, some even EM64T AMD-clones).
> 
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Tom Colson wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to tweak multi-threading on a multiprocessor box(Xeon).
> > Reading appendix a.2.2 in the install and admin menu, I see that I can
> > use the internal BLAS lib and/or a multi-thread version of ATLAS (Where
> > to get?)
> 
> The last _is_ described in Appendix A.2.2, together with several other 
> possibilities.
> 
> > Question: Intel claims their libraries are faster than ATLAS. Has anyone
> > compiled R against the Intel BLAS? If so...how did you do it?
> >
> > http://developer.intel.com/software/products/mkl/features/lin_alg.htm
> 
> That _is_ described in Appendix A.2.2.
> 
> > And I'm in the market for a pre-built Atlas dual processor lib for Xeon.
> > Know where I can find one?
>