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From: bron@bronze.wpd.sgi.com (Bron Campbell Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines (BLAS)
Summary: Kuck and Associates
Message-ID: <64287@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 17 Jul 90 02:22:01 GMT
References: <90Jul13.100737edt.8304@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <90Jul13.100737edt.8304@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>, tff@na.toronto.edu (Tom Fairgrieve) writes:
> Does SGI have an optimized version of the BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra 
> Subroutines) available for the 4d/240?  If so, how does the performance
> of this version compare to a version produced by the f77 compiler with
> -O3 optimization level set?  I'm interested in all 3 levels of the BLAS.

As far as I know, SGI does not have versions of the BLAS libraries.
However, Kuck and Associates, Inc. (KAI) in Illinois does sell math
libraries that are tuned to run on SGI multiprocessors.  If I remember
correctly (always a dangerous assumption) one customer was able to
hit over 50MFLOPS on an 8 cpu machine using the KAI software.

My *personal* opinion is that the KAI library is very good and very fast.

Contact KAI directly for more info.  I believe Debbie Carr is still their
marketing person: try  dcarr@kai.com

Standard disclaimer:
This is provided for information only.  Neither I nor SGI make any
warrenties, either express or implied.  And so on blah blah blah etc. etc.

--
Bron Campbell Nelson
bron@sgi.com  or possibly  ..!ames!sgi!bron
These statements are my own, not those of Silicon Graphics.