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ATLAS on a G5?

by Risa Wechsler

Have any of our lovely and astute readers sucessfully gotten the ATLAS libraries to work on a G5 running Tiger?
(i.e., sucessfully linked the LAPACK libraries from the ATLAS distribution)

Progress understanding the fate of the Universe lies in your hands! Thanks in advance for any advice.

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August 5th, 2005 3:36 PM
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4 Responses to “ATLAS on a G5?”

  1. 1.   MR Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 4:20 pm

    Have you tried installing the fink package? At least on a G4 there was no problem….

  2. 2.   Andrew Jaffe Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 5:31 pm

    Risa-

    Why bother with ATLAS? The Mac has the ‘veclib framework’ which has the whole of LAPACK and BLAS (and more) optimized for the hardware?

    (you link with something like ‘-framework veclib’; not sure about the appropriate include files if you need them)

  3. 3.   Deborah Goldsmith Says:
    August 5th, 2005 at 11:47 pm

    Since 10.3 the framework to link with has been the Accelerate umbrella framework:

    cc -faltivec -framework Accelerate

    For details, see:
    man Accelerate
    http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/

  4. 4.   Risa Says:
    August 6th, 2005 at 7:42 pm

    Thanks! This was actually for a colleague, but apparently now everything is working fine. (The fink that worked on G4s doesn’t work, but the -framework veclib or -framework Accelerate worked fine.)





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