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Best Practices<br />

Performance Libraries<br />

• Optimized for specific architecture<br />

• Use when possible, remember even a<br />

numerical recipes book does not provide<br />

an optimized algorithm<br />

• Performance libraries available <strong>on</strong> <strong>Quest</strong>:<br />

– ATLAS (3.8.3,3.9.16,3.9.24, 3.9.45)<br />

– Intel MKL includes BLAS, LAPACK, FFTW,<br />

VML (ComposerXE 2011 and 10.2)<br />

– GNU Scientific Library (1.13, 1.14)

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