LAPACK/BLAS for Fedora core 4 i386 ?
Hi all, Can anyone recommend the best way to get a native LAPACK installed on Fedora core 4? I'm quite surprised that I can't find an atlas rpm with yum. While I'm at it, when I was using Gentoo, it came with a nice atlas blas/lapack. Unfortunately, the atlas lapack does not include all of lapack. It has everything Numeric/numarray needs, but not some stuff i need for another project (Banded Matrix solvers). Does anyone have a suggestion for how to add the addional lapack stuff I need, while still using atlas stuff where possible? Frankly, I don't understand why atlas doesn't just include all of lapack, using generic versions for anything they haven't optimized, it would be a lot easier to get one stop shopping. -Chris
Hi Chris, On Wednesday 20 July 2005 02:46 pm, Chris Barker wrote:
Hi all,
Can anyone recommend the best way to get a native LAPACK installed on Fedora core 4?
I'm quite surprised that I can't find an atlas rpm with yum.
While I'm at it, when I was using Gentoo, it came with a nice atlas blas/lapack. Unfortunately, the atlas lapack does not include all of lapack. It has everything Numeric/numarray needs, but not some stuff i need for another project (Banded Matrix solvers). Does anyone have a suggestion for how to add the addional lapack stuff I need, while still using atlas stuff where possible?
I can't comment on the Fedora question. With Gentoo, you should not use the "atlas" package, because it comes with an incomplete LAPACK, as you pointed out. Instead, Gentoo-ers should use the "blas-atlas" and "lapack-atlas" packages. -- Darren
Darren Dale wrote:
I can't comment on the Fedora question. With Gentoo, you should not use the "atlas" package, because it comes with an incomplete LAPACK, as you pointed out.
Instead, Gentoo-ers should use the "blas-atlas" and "lapack-atlas" packages.
Well, I've moved away from Gentoo, but I just may go back. However, I'm pretty sure I was using the lapack-atlas package, and while it was described as "complete", it did not, in fact, have all of lapack. Maybe I was doing something wrong, however. -thanks, Chris
"Chris Barker"
Does anyone have a suggestion for how to add the addional lapack stuff I need, while still using atlas stuff where possible?
See the ATLAS installation manual. Greetings, Jochen -- Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit http://www.Jochen-Kuepper.de Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité GnuPG key: CC1B0B4D (Part 3 you find in my messages before fall 2003.)
Jochen Küpper wrote:
Does anyone have a suggestion for how to add the addional lapack stuff I need, while still using atlas stuff where possible?
See the ATLAS installation manual.
Thanks for the tip.
Do you mean this? :
"""
******** GETTING A FULL LAPACK LIB **************************
ATLAS does not provide a full lapack library. However, there is a
simple way
to get ATLAS to provide its faster LAPACK routines to a full LAPACK library.
ATLAS's internal routines are distinct from LAPACK's, so it is safe to
compile
ATLAS's LAPACK routines directly into a netlib-style LAPACK library.
First, obtain the LAPACK src from netlib and build the LAPACK library as
normal. Then, in this directory (where you should have a liblapack.a),
issue the following commands:
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
ar x ../liblapack.a
cp
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