[petsc-users] Intel MKL Sparse blas

[Barry Smith]

  Richard,

  I haven't looked at it enough to have specific complaints :-)

  Barry

> On Dec 18, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Richard Mills <richardtmills at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Barry,
> 
> Just curious: Do you have any particular recommendations for how you would change the API?  I am not a fan simply because the API is very "BLAS like".  I'm wondering if that is your primary objection, or if there is anything that specifically sticks out as an annoyance.  (I have yet to do any serious work with these, so I don't know what I would find needs improvement.)
> 
> --Richard
> 
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>    We're always happy to accept contributions. Intel unfortunately made some terrible choices for APIs for these things so it is unlikely without a specific funding source that we would ourselves add code to PETSc to utilize them.
> 
>    Barry
> 
> > On Dec 18, 2015, at 12:49 PM, W. Miah <wadud.miah at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Do you have any plans for a PETSc port that uses the optimised Intel MKL sparse BLAS:
> >
> > https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/520797
> >
> > I think this will be an interesting optimisation exercise.
> >
> > Best regards,
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