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Subject: FYI:Re: ASCI BLAS
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Robert Williams writes:
 > Paul Springer wrote:
 > > 
 > > The ASCI project has released a very fast BLAS for Linux on Pentiums.
 > > (See http://www.cs.utk.edu/~ghenry/distrib).  They are well worth the
 > > wait.  For multiplying together two double precision matrices of
 > > size 512 x 512, I clocked a rate of 152 MFlops/s on one of our Beowulf's
 > > Pentium Pro nodes.  Previously the rate had been less than 20.
 > 
 > Kazushige Goto's assembler dgemm for axp/Linux
 > (and for alpha-DEC Unix) is now running at 480 MFlops
 > on a 433 MHz 21164/Linux system (2000x2000),
 > and 700 MFlops on a 625 MHz 21164 DEC 8400.
 > DEC is going to 1000 MHz soon and axp/Linux
 > is very stable on my machine.  It might be time
 > to start thinking along these lines for beowulf.  
 > 
 > -- 
 > Bob Williams, http://bob.usuf2.usuhs.mil/