Hi,
I'm unclear about the use of GSL and Scalapack. What parts of the code do these libraries affect? Should I expect faster execution and/or better results if I use them? thanks for the tips,
Joe
Use of GSL and Scalapack?
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Use of GSL and Scalapack?
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Re: Use of GSL and Scalapack?
Hello Joe,
I think the logic behind including GSL is to give developers access to this nice library of scientific functions ... good idea but no practical use for the moment (I mean for the end user).
And for Scalapack ... it should allow distributed (MPI) linear algebra functions to deal with very large systems that will use more that all the available memory on a single computer box. It won't make lapack faster but it will relax the memory limitations of this (multithreaded) library.
Kind regards,
Alain
I think the logic behind including GSL is to give developers access to this nice library of scientific functions ... good idea but no practical use for the moment (I mean for the end user).
And for Scalapack ... it should allow distributed (MPI) linear algebra functions to deal with very large systems that will use more that all the available memory on a single computer box. It won't make lapack faster but it will relax the memory limitations of this (multithreaded) library.
Kind regards,
Alain