Software Development on Quest
Software Development on Quest
Software Development on Quest
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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)