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R-3.1.0 + OpenBLAS Speed Comparisons

Published by Avi on April 20, 2014 | 6 Responses

With the recent release of R-3.1.0, and the near-recent release of OpenBLAS 0.29rc2, it was time to recompile Rblas.dll and do some new speed tests. The test computer has an Intel i7-2600K, overclocked to 4.6Ghz with 16GB RAM and runs Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. For the first test, a plain vanilla reference R will Read the full article…

An OpenBLAS-based Rblas for Windows 64

Published by Avi on October 22, 2013 | 6 Responses

One of the more important pieces of software that powers R is its BLAS, which stands for Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms. This is the suite of programs which, as its name implies, performs basic linear algebra routines such as vector copying, scaling and dot products; linear combinations; and matrix multiplication. It is the engine on Read the full article…