Bug#684344: libopenblas-base: please install OpenMP version

Steven G. Johnson stevenj at ab-initio.mit.edu
Wed Aug 8 21:58:35 UTC 2012


Package: libopenblas-base
Severity: wishlist

Currently, Debian installs the version of OpenBLAS that uses pthreads
parallelism.  In addition to this, or perhaps instead of this, it would
be nice to have a version that uses OpenMP parallelism (compile with
USE_OPENMP=1).

The main reason for an OpenMP version of OpenBLAS is that this makes
OpenBLAS easier to use from software that is already parellelized with
OpenMP -- the software and the OpenBLAS library can then share the
same thread pool and coordinate their usage.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash



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