Re: [Help-gsl] Parallelization of GSL CBLAS implementation with OpenMP?

[John Chludzinski]

I'm primarily interested in an OpenCL implementation of GSL?  ---John

2011/1/6 José Luis García Pallero <address@hidden>

> Hello,
> I don't know if this topic was discussed earlier in some of the GSL
> lists. What about the possibility of the parallelization of the GSL
> CBLAS implementation via OpenMP? Nowadays, the multicore processors
> are the most common hardware and recent compilers (gcc since 4.2
> series) supports the OpenMP standard. I think that it will be easy to
> parallelize at least the CBLAS level 3 (since they perform the most
> computations) functions.
> Is clear that who needs powerful must use an optimised CBLAS
> implementation as ATLAS or GotoBLAS (now free software under the BSD
> license: http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/gotoblas2/) but I
> think that using OpenMP in GSL CBLAS would improve the speed of the
> standard GSL distribution and it wouldn't suppose a big effort of
> programming.
> Attached I send a patch for the source_gemm_r.h file in order to
> parallelize dgemm and sgemm functions. It is only a patch in order to
> see the simplicity of adding OpenMP support. I didn't test it as now
> I'm not have here a multicore here.
>
> Thanks
>
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