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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ Development version (next release) - Added exports to be able to create a DLL on Windows (thanks to Marco Hutter) - Made the library thread-safe +- Performance and correctness tests can now (on top of clBLAS) be performed against CPU BLAS libraries - Fixed the use of events within the library - Added level-1 routines: * SNRM2/DNRM2/ScNRM2/DzNRM2 @@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ The pre-requisites for compilation of CLBlast are: - Intel OpenCL - Beignet +Furthermore, to build the (optional) correctness and performance tests, another BLAS library is needed to serve as a reference. This can be either: + +* The OpenCL BLAS library [clBLAS](http://github.com/clMathLibraries/clBLAS (maintained by AMD) +* A regular CPU Netlib BLAS library, e.g.: + - OpenBLAS + - BLIS + - Accelerate + An example of an out-of-source build (starting from the root of the CLBlast folder): mkdir build @@ -135,9 +143,9 @@ To make sure CLBlast is working correctly on your device (recommended), compile cmake -DTESTS=ON .. -Afterwards, executables in the form of `clblast_test_xxxxx` are available, in which `xxxxx` is the name of a routine (e.g. `xgemm`). Note that CLBlast is tested against [clBLAS](http://github.com/clMathLibraries/clBLAS) for correctness. The library clBLAS is therefore required to be installed on your system for the CLBlast tests. +Afterwards, executables in the form of `clblast_test_xxxxx` are available, in which `xxxxx` is the name of a routine (e.g. `xgemm`). Note that CLBlast is best tested against [clBLAS](http://github.com/clMathLibraries/clBLAS) for correctness. If the library clBLAS is not installed on your system, it will use a regular CPU BLAS library to test against. -With the `-DTESTS=ON` flag, additional performance tests are compiled. These come in the form of client executables named `clblast_client_xxxxx`, in which `xxxxx` is the name of a routine (e.g. `xgemm`). These clients take a bunch of configuration options and directly run both CLBlast and clBLAS in a head-to-head performance test. +With the `-DTESTS=ON` flag, additional performance tests are compiled. These come in the form of client executables named `clblast_client_xxxxx`, in which `xxxxx` is the name of a routine (e.g. `xgemm`). These clients take a bunch of configuration options and directly run CLBlast in a head-to-head performance test against clBLAS and/or a CPU BLAS library. Performance remarks @@ -249,4 +257,3 @@ To-do list before release of version 1.0 - Support all routines supported by clBLAS - Allow the user control over events and synchronization - Add half-precision routines (e.g. HGEMM) -- Enable correctness and performance testing against a CPU-based BLAS library |