Re: Instructions for Installing BLAS and LAPACK library on Octave 5.2.0

Ilaya Bharathi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general
Message-ID <CAGZhkujzd1GJZs0E-SN1q445_uFvDoaPR7r3n+oU3x=xFjN4XA@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Nicholas,

Do you have the variable OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS by default with the zip
installation?
Also, are there any codes to test the implementation?

Many thanks
Ilaya bharathi


On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 7:30 PM Nicholas Jankowski <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>>>    - Downloading Octave 5.2.0-64 bit executable from the official GNU
>>>    Octave website(
>>>    https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html#ms-windows) for
>>>    Win 10
>>>    - Installing the same and checking with the default OPENBLAS library.
>>>    - Assigning the value for the environment variable  OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS
>>>    = "the number of processors we need to utilize"
>>>    -
>>>
>>>
>> The second step is not necessary. Otherwise yes.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>
>  Do you mean the installing or assigning step?  In my default config zip
> install, OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS was empty.  I set it to different values from
> 1-4 since I have a 4 core machine, and didn't notice any real difference
> running that test routine you posted.  i extended the 1e8 to 2e8 and 1e9 to
> get meaningful runtimes, but there seemed to be no difference changing the
> value of that option.  in all cases multiple cores were taxed on
> execution.  It's a managed machine so I don't have Process Explorer to
> actually verify the thread count, so maybe other things are happening that
> I'm not noticing.
>
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