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From: Ken Thomas <kst@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Free AMD Core Math Library (BLAS/LAPACK) + Ada
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Date: 2012-07-11T02:47:47-07:00
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On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 8:49:03 AM UTC+1, Simon Wright wrote:
> Ada novice &lt;shai.lesh@gmx.com&gt; writes:
>=20
> &gt; 2. I will install the acml-4-4-0-gfortran-32bit.tgz from ACML. Hope
> &gt; this works! Nevertheless I saw some lapack files already on my
> &gt; Linux. So should I just disregard these?
>=20
> The reason you were pursuing ACML was that you might have been able to
> get it to work with Ada *on Windows*. On Linux, you can use the
> already-packaged LAPACK/BLAS libraries (as Nasser has said, you&#39;ll ne=
ed
> to load them using the package manager; I&#39;d expect loading LAPACK wou=
ld
> automagically load BLAS).

Perhaps we should remember the motivation of the BLAS/LAPACK. A standard sp=
ecification that is implemented by hardware companies such as Intel, AMD us=
ing all the wizardry to obtain high performance. A related question is give=
n the Ada .Numerics package Generic_Real_Arrays how do we modify the build =
to link in the high performance tools?