I would bet a beer that Jed's Intel intrinsics beat the pants off of anything OSKI has to offer at this point.

A

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

 Who put this in and does it do anything?

  Barry


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Kadir Akbudak <kadir@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
> Date: April 8, 2011 6:42:40 AM CDT
> To: petsc-maint@mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: [petsc-maint #69763] PETSc and OSKI
> Reply-To: petsc-maint@mcs.anl.gov, Kadir Akbudak <kadir@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
>
> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> There is such a configuration script,
> petsc-3.1-p8/config/PETSc/packages/oski.py, in the PETSc distribution.
> Does this mean that PETSc uses OSKI sparse matrix-vector routines? If
> yes, is it possible to use shared libraries? It is written as:
> self.liblist   = [['oski/liboski_Tid.a','oski/liboski.a']] This means
> the libraries are static.
>
> In fact I want to use benefits of OSKI together with my sparse matrix
> ordering tool, in a numerical method which can be performed by PETSc.
>
> Yours Faithfully,
>
> Kadir
>