OpenBLAS 0.2.18 version

Version 0.2.18
12-Apr-2016

common:

• If you set MAKE_NB_JOBS flag less or equal than zero, make will be without -j.

x86/x86_64:

• Support building Visual Studio static library. (#813, Thanks, theoractice)
• Fix bugs to pass buidbot CI tests (http://build.openblas.net)

ARM:

• Provide DGEMM 8x4 kernel for Cortex-A57 (Thanks, Ashwin Sekhar T K)

POWER:

• Optimize S and C BLAS3 on Power8
• Optimize BLAS2/1 on Power8

md5sum
4ca49eb1c45b3ca82a0034ed3cc2cef1 OpenBLAS-0.2.18.zip
805e7f660877d588ea7e3792cda2ee65 OpenBLAS-0.2.18.tar.gz

OpenBLAS 0.2.17 version

Version 0.2.17
20-Mar-2016

common:

• Enable BUILD_LAPACK_DEPRECATED=1 by default.

md5sum
5f04c53183a5bc785b9900eb9bab44ac /tmp/OpenBLAS-0.2.17.zip
664a12807f2a2a7cda4781e3ab2ae0e1 /tmp/OpenBLAS-0.2.17.tar.gz

OpenBLAS 0.2.16 version

Version 0.2.16
15-Mar-2016

common:

• Upgrade LAPACK to 3.6.0 version.
  Add BUILD_LAPACK_DEPRECATED option in Makefile.rule to build
  LAPACK deprecated functions.
• Add MAKE_NB_JOBS option in Makefile.
  Force number of make jobs.This is particularly
  useful when using distcc. (#735. Thanks, Jerome Robert.)
• Redesign unit test. Run unit/regression test at every build (Travis-CI and Appveyor).
• Disable multi-threading for small size swap and ger. (#744. Thanks, Jerome Robert)
• Improve small zger, zgemv, ztrmv using stack alloction (#727. Thanks, Jerome Robert)
• Let openblas_get_num_threads return the number of active threads.
  (#760. Thanks, Jerome Robert)
• Support illumos(OmniOS). (#749. Thanks, Lauri Tirkkonen)
• Fix LAPACK Dormbr, Dormlq bug. (#711, #713. Thanks, Brendan Tracey)
• Update scipy benchmark script. (#745. Thanks, John Kirkham)
• Avoid potential getenv segfault. (#716)
• Import LAPACK svn bugfix #142-#147,#150-#155

x86/x86_64:

• Optimize trsm kernels for AMD Bulldozer, Piledriver, Steamroller.
• Detect Intel Avoton.
• Detect AMD Trinity, Richland, E2-3200.
• Fix gemv performance bug on Mac OSX Intel Haswell.
• Fix some bugs with CMake and Visual Studio
• Optimize c/zgemv for AMD Bulldozer, Piledriver, Steamroller
• Fix bug with scipy linalg test.

ARM:

• Support and optimize Cortex-A57 AArch64.
  (#686. Thanks, Ashwin Sekhar TK)
• Fix Android build on ARMV7 (#778. Thanks, Paul Mustiere)
• Update ARMV6 kernels.
• Improve DGEMM for ARM Cortex-A57. (Thanks, Ashwin Sekhar T K)

POWER:

• Fix detection of POWER architecture
  (#684. Thanks, Sebastien Villemot)
• Optimize D and Z BLAS3 functions for Power8.

md5sum
8fae7cebfefa073c8640e99c4454dc03 OpenBLAS-0.2.16.zip
fef46ab92463bdbb1479dcec594ef6dc OpenBLAS-0.2.16.tar.gz

OpenBLAS 0.2.15 version

Version 0.2.15
27-Oct-2015

common:

• Support cmake on x86/x86-64. Natively compiling on MS Visual Studio.
  (experimental. Thank Hank Anderson for the initial cmake porting work.)

    On Linux and Mac OSX, OpenBLAS cmake supports assembly kernels.
    e.g. cmake .
         make
         make test (Optional)
  
    On Windows MS Visual Studio, OpenBLAS cmake only support C kernels.
    (OpenBLAS uses AT&T style assembly, which is not supported by MSVC.)
    e.g. cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 Win64" .
         Open OpenBLAS.sln and build.
  

• Enable MAX_STACK_ALLOC flags by default.
  Improve ger and gemv for small matrices.

• Improve gemv parallel with small m and large n case.

• Improve ?imatcopy when lda==ldb (#633. Thanks, Martin Koehler)

• Add vecLib benchmarks (#565. Thanks, Andreas Noack.)

• Fix LAPACK lantr for row major matrices (#634. Thanks, Dan Kortschak)

• Fix LAPACKE lansy (#640. Thanks, Dan Kortschak)

• Import bug fixes for LAPACKE s/dormlq, c/zunmlq

• Raise the signal when pthread_create fails (#668. Thanks, James K. Lowden)

• Remove g77 from compiler list.

• Enable AppVeyor Windows CI.

x86/x86-64:

• Support pure C generic kernels for x86/x86-64.
• Support Intel Boardwell and Skylake by Haswell kernels.
• Support AMD Excavator by Steamroller kernels.
• Optimize s/d/c/zdot for Intel SandyBridge and Haswell.
• Optimize s/d/c/zdot for AMD Piledriver and Steamroller.
• Optimize s/d/c/zapxy for Intel SandyBridge and Haswell.
• Optimize s/d/c/zapxy for AMD Piledriver and Steamroller.
• Optimize d/c/zscal for Intel Haswell, dscal for Intel SandyBridge.
• Optimize d/c/zscal for AMD Bulldozer, Piledriver and Steamroller.
• Optimize s/dger for Intel SandyBridge.
• Optimize s/dsymv for Intel SandyBridge.
• Optimize ssymv for Intel Haswell.
• Optimize dgemv for Intel Nehalem and Haswell.
• Optimize dtrmm for Intel Haswell.

ARM:

• Support Android NDK armeabi-v7a-hard ABI (-mfloat-abi=hard)

    e.g. make HOSTCC=gcc CC=arm-linux-androideabi-gcc NO_LAPACK=1 TARGET=ARMV7
  

• Fix lock, rpcc bugs (#616, #617. Thanks, Grazvydas Ignotas)

POWER:

• Support ppc64le platform (ELF ABI v2. #612. Thanks, Matthew Brandyberry.)
• Support POWER7/8 by POWER6 kernels. (#612. Thanks, Fábio Perez.)

md5sum
c9c181a981897e1cb0192f8589130a6c OpenBLAS-0.2.15.zip
b1190f3d3471685f17cfd1ec1d252ac9 OpenBLAS-0.2.15.tar.gz

OpenBLAS 0.2.14 Version

Version 0.2.14
24-Mar-2015

common:

• Improve OpenBLASConfig.cmake. (#474, #475. Thanks, xantares.)
• Improve ger and gemv for small matrices by stack allocation.
  e.g. make -DMAX_STACK_ALLOC=2048 (#482. Thanks, Jerome Robert.)
• Introduce openblas_get_num_threads and openblas_get_num_procs. (#497. Thanks, Erik Schnetter.)
• Add ATLAS-style ?geadd function. (#509. Thanks, Martin Köhler.)
• Fix c/zsyr bug with negative incx. (#492.)
• Fix race condition during shutdown causing a crash in gotoblas_set_affinity(). (#508. Thanks, Ton van den Heuvel.)

x86/x86-64:

• Support AMD Streamroller.

ARM:

• Add Cortex-A9 and Cortex-A15 targets.

md5sum
a57e197a34ba8b651347e6453961baab OpenBLAS-0.2.14.zip
53cda7f420e1ba0ea55de536b24c9701 OpenBLAS-0.2.14.tar.gz

OpenBLAS 0.2.13 version

Version 0.2.13
3-Dec-2014

common:

• Add SYMBOLPREFIX and SYMBOLSUFFIX makefile options
  for adding a prefix or suffix to all exported symbol names
  in the shared library.(#459, Thanks Tony Kelman)
• Provide OpenBLASConfig.cmake at installation.
• Fix Fortran compiler detection on FreeBSD.
  (#470, Thanks Mike Nolta)

x86/x86-64:

• Add generic kernel files for x86-64. make TARGET=GENERIC
• Fix a bug of sgemm kernel on Intel Sandy Bridge.
• Fix c_check bug on some amd64 systems. (#471, Thanks Mike Nolta)

ARM:

• Support APM's X-Gene 1 AArch64 processors.
  Optimize trmm and sgemm. (#465, Thanks Dave Nuechterlein)

md5sum
8147e68c9e3e294a1a26280050bcf6a2 OpenBLAS-0.2.13.zip
bba7b37b5a5b6674fda91dcb2faab145 OpenBLAS-0.2.13.tar.gz

OpenBLAS 0.2.12 version

Version 0.2.12
13-Oct-2014
common:
* Added CBLAS interface for ?omatcopy and ?imatcopy.
* Enable ?gemm3m functions.
* Added benchmark for ?gemm3m.
* Optimized multithreading lower limits.
* Disabled SYMM3M and HEMM3M functions
because of segment violations.

x86/x86-64:
* Improved axpy and symv performance on AMD Bulldozer.
* Improved gemv performance on modern Intel and AMD CPUs.

md5sum
4889408c500aa7fa818d92c0c71d9098 /tmp/OpenBLAS-0.2.12.zip
5df7f175b2db6a2b02ca4ff932e39bc7 /tmp/OpenBLAS-0.2.12.tar.gz

OpenBLAS 0.2.11 version

OpenBLAS ChangeLog

Version 0.2.11
18-Aug-2014

common:

• Added some benchmark codes.
• Fix link error on Linux/musl.(Thanks Isaac Dunham)

x86/x86-64:

• Improved s/c/zgemm performance for Intel Haswell.
• Improved s/d/c/zgemv performance.
• Support the big numa machine.(EXPERIMENT)

ARM:

• Fix detection when cpuinfo uses "Processor". (Thanks Isaiah)

md5sum
946434ece1d7a12ba938902665b47434 OpenBLAS-0.2.11.zip
c456f3c5e84c3ab69ef89b22e616627a OpenBLAS-0.2.11.tar.gz

OpenBLAS 0.2.10 version

OpenBLAS ChangeLog

Version 0.2.10
16-Jul-2014

common:

• Added BLAS extensions as following.
  s/d/c/zaxpby, s/d/c/zimatcopy, s/d/c/zomatcopy.
• Added OPENBLAS_CORETYPE environment for dynamic_arch. (a86d349)
• Added NO_AVX2 flag for old binutils. (#401)
• Support outputing the CPU corename on runtime.(#407)
• Patched LAPACK to fix bug 114, 117, 118.
  (http://www.netlib.org/lapack/bug_list.html)
• Disabled ?gemm3m for a work-around fix. (#400)

x86/x86-64:

• Fixed lots of bugs for optimized kernels on sandybridge,Haswell,
  bulldozer, and piledriver.
  https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/wiki/Fixed-optimized-kernels-To-do-List

ARM:

• Improved LAPACK testing.

md5sum
0bafb7fe70769bb00071d7170737e66d OpenBLAS-0.2.10.zip
eb3ff035734ce5f4e1ff9d3e5c7ac734 OpenBLAS-0.2.10.tar.gz

OpenBLAS 0.2.9 version

OpenBLAS Changelog

Version 0.2.9
10-Jun-2014
common:

• Improved the result for LAPACK testing. (#372)
• Installed DLL to prefix/bin instead of prefix/lib. (#366)
• Build import library on Windows.(#374)
  x86/x86-64:
• To improve LAPACK testing, we fallback some kernels. (#372)
  https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/wiki/Fixed-optimized-kernels-To-do-List

Version 0.2.9.rc2
06-Mar-2014
common:

• Added OPENBLAS_VERBOSE environment variable.(#338)
• Make OpenBLAS thread-pool resilient to fork via pthread_atfork. (#294, Thank Olivier Grisel)
• Rewrote rotmg
• Fixed sdsdot bug.
  x86/x86-64:
• Detect Intel Haswell for new Macbook.

Version 0.2.9.rc1
13-Jan-2013
common:

• Update LAPACK to 3.5.0 version
• Fixed compatiable issues with Clang and Pathscale compilers.

x86/x86-64:

• Optimization on Intel Haswell.
• Enable optimization kernels on AMD Bulldozer and Piledriver.

ARM:

• Support ARMv6 and ARMv7 ISA.
• Optimization on ARM Cortex-A9.

md5sum
84dd50ec05e6f6ebdcdd578a09b146ef OpenBLAS-0.2.9.zip
395052b930ec553a5cd6207dadaaef4a OpenBLAS-0.2.9.tar.gz