[R-sig-hpc] Matrix multiplication

[Claudia Beleites]

Dear Patrick,

> I noticed that there isn't a function for matrix multiplication in
> the new parallel library. What would be the most efficient way to do
> a matrix multiplication there?
I use libgotoblas2 / libopenblas which automatically does multithreaded
%*% matrix multiplication. There's an environment variable
GOTO_NUM_THREADS to decide how many threads to use.

Best,

Claudia Beleites


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