From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: OpenBLAS and performance
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 11:36:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171221103657.GA13050@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tdxxasg.fsf@elephly.net>
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 12:02:55AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>
> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 09:00:46PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> >> > I do think we need to default to a conservative openblas for general
> >> > use. Question is how we make it fly on dedicated hardware.
> >>
> >> Have you tried preloading the special library with LD_PRELOAD?
> >
> > It is not a question of what I can do. It is a question of how we give
> > other people the benefit of optimized libs in an elegant way.
>
> I’m asking because preloading different BLAS libraries is a thing. If
> this works then we can ask people to just pick their favourite BLAS
> library variant and preload it. We don’t need to build all combinations
> of library variants and applications.
Ah, sorry, I misunderstood. Let me play with that a little. Do note
that it is a bit more complex than it looks. For example, often you
need a cblas API. This comes with gslclas and openblas built-in. So,
to use atlas you also need libgslcblas.so. With optimized openblas you
don't.
> > I think channels actually should make a difference if we don't cater
> > in default Guix for such use cases.
>
> I think channels (and really: alternative build farms) do make sense for
> tuned builds.
+1. The use case is simply:
guix channel pjotr-optimized-haswell
guix package -i python-numpy
which would install my optimized edition.
Pj.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-21 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-19 10:49 OpenBLAS and performance Pjotr Prins
2017-12-19 17:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-20 11:50 ` Dave Love
2017-12-20 14:48 ` Dave Love
2017-12-20 15:06 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-22 12:24 ` Dave Love
2017-12-20 17:22 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-12-20 18:15 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-20 19:28 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-12-20 20:00 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-20 20:32 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-12-20 19:02 ` Eric Bavier
2017-12-21 16:38 ` Dave Love
2017-12-20 23:02 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-21 10:36 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2017-12-21 14:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-22 14:35 ` Dave Love
2017-12-21 16:17 ` Dave Love
2017-12-21 16:46 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-12-21 14:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-22 12:45 ` Dave Love
2017-12-22 15:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-22 16:08 ` Pjotr Prins
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