On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Dave Love <d.love@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > arnaud gaboury <arnaud.gaboury@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I have been working on my first rpmbuild since quite a few days now. >> >> The rpm is intendeed to install R[0] built with Intel MKL libraries >> and Intel compiler. As a base for the spec file, I used the one from >> Fedora R package[1]. > > Why? I ask as someone who supports R rpms on HPC systems and knows a > bit about relevant libraries and compilers. Please visit this blog[0] or many other talking about R-benchmark.R. > > If you want to subvert R's BLAS (and other slower versions) with > something largely optimal, look at the openblas-compat package under > <https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/loveshack/livhpc/>. [Yes, linear > algebra in Fedora is a shambles, with at least one failed attempt to > sort it out, but adding Intel stuff will only make things worse, and > that package finesses the issue fairly handily.] I agree than open-blas is a good soultion, but not as fast as the Intel BLAS libraries. [0]http://blog.nguyenvq.com/blog/2014/11/10/optimized-r-and-python-standard-blas-vs-atlas-vs-openblas-vs-mkl/ > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
