Article:		The AltiVec Difference
Subject:		BLAS for Altivec
Date:		2002-04-09 16:17:48
From:		professorxavier
Does anybody know whether there is a (free?) source for BLAS routines for the G4/Altivec (Velocity Engine)? RSVP.

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• BLAS for Altivec
  2002-04-22 07:51:27  willic3 [Reply | View]
  
  
  Check out http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/. An even better option if you're using Mac OSX is to install fink on your mac (http://fink.sourceforge.net). This will allow you to easily install a number of useful software packages. Once you have fink installed, you can generate the BLAS (I believe LAPACK is also installed) libraries by doing the following:
  
  1. sudo cp /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci/atlas* /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo
  
  2. sudo fink install atlas
  
  You will then need to answer a number of questions for the interactive installer, and the installation will take some time as atlas tunes the routines for your machine. Also, you should probably install g77 prior to installing atlas (sudo fink install g77). Good luck.
  
  Charles Williams
  
• BLAS for Altivec
  2002-05-29 20:00:05  chrisdb3001 [Reply | View]
  
  
  What about imslib ???? Most physicists I know depend on this more than BLAS or LAPACK.