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[Peter Blaha]

Goto is a Japanese scientist (working (or worked) in Texas,US). He 
developed a highly optimized BLAS-library, which is in many cases even 
faster then the specific vendor-optimized libraries (like mkl from 
Intel, acml from AMD or essl for IBM Power architecture).

I just tested the latest version of libgoto and it turned out to be even 
faster than the mkl lib on our P4 systems.
Please note, this could change any time with the appearance of new 
versions/releases, so it is difficult to give a definite recommendation.

In any case, the free goto-library is ALWAYS an option which one should 
test, if you like to get out most of your system.

See  http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/resources/software/


Stefaan Cottenier schrieb:
>> (1) One of the recommended options for system altix is:
>>     R_LIB (LAPACK+BLAS):     -L/opt/goto/lib -lgoto_it2 -lscs
>> -L/opt/intel/mkl70/lib/64 -lvml
>>
>>       I change -L/opt/goto/lib   to   -L/opt/intel/fc/9.1.032/lib  
>>       ------ i.e., replace goto by the real path. 
>>  
>>
> 'goto' is a Japanese name, and should not be confused with the English 
> phrase 'go to'. Goto is the name of a library (like mkl), and apparently 
> this library is recommended for your system. Look where it is installed, 
> and adapt the path accordingly. If it is not installed, search the web 
> (I did not follow the story, probably goto is not a free library any 
> more) or ask your administrator.
> 
>>       What does -lgoto_it2  mean?  What should I put in the place of goto?
>>  
>>
> That's the Itanium version of the goto library.


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