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Field G. Van Zee
bb4a01f130 Added BLASFEO results to docs/PerformanceSmall.md.
Details:
- Updated the graphs linked in PerformanceSmall.md with BLASFEO results,
  and added documenting language accordingly.
- Updated scripts in test/sup/octave to plot BLASFEO data.
- Minor tweak to language re: how OpenBLAS was configured for
  docs/Performance.md.
2019-08-23 14:18:09 +05:30
Field G. Van Zee
55e7b045c3 Added sup performance graphs/document to 'docs'.
Details:
- Added a new markdown document, docs/PerformanceSmall.md, which
  publishes new performance graphs for Kaby Lake and Epyc showcasing
  the new BLIS sup (small/skinny/unpacked) framework logic and kernels.
  For now, only single-threaded dgemm performance is shown.
- Reorganized graphs in docs/graphs into docs/graphs/large, with new
  graphs being placed in docs/graphs/sup.
- Updates to scripts in test/sup/octave, mostly to allow decent output
  in both GNU octave and Matlab.
- Updated README.md to mention and refer to the new PerformanceSmall.md
  document.
2019-08-23 14:18:08 +05:30
Field G. Van Zee
defe789b8c Minor rewording of language around mt env. vars. 2019-08-23 14:18:08 +05:30
Field G. Van Zee
73970bf124 Added BLIS theading info to Performance.md.
Details:
- Documented the BLIS environment variables that were set
  (e.g. BLIS_JC_NT, BLIS_IC_NT, BLIS_JR_NT) for each machine and
  threading configuration in order to achieve the parallelism reported
  on in docs/Performance.md.
2019-08-23 14:18:08 +05:30
Field G. Van Zee
22768bf959 Updated Eigen results in docs/graphs with 3.3.90.
Details:
- Updated the level-3 performance graphs in docs/graphs with new Eigen
  results, this time using a development version cloned from their git
  mirror on March 27, 2019 (version 3.3.90). Performance is improved
  over 3.3.7, though still noticeably short of BLIS/MKL in most cases.
- Very minor updates to docs/Performance.md and matlab scripts in
  test/3/matlab.
2019-08-23 14:18:08 +05:30
Field G. Van Zee
cb45eb9ae2 Minor text updates (Eigen) to docs/Performance.md.
Details:
- Added/updated a few more details, mostly regarding Eigen.
2019-08-23 14:18:08 +05:30
Field G. Van Zee
3e94a0ffd2 Added Eigen results to performance graphs.
Details:
- Updated the Haswell, SkylakeX, and Epyc performance graphs in
  docs/graphs to report on Eigen implementations, where applicable.
  Specifically, Eigen implements all level-3 operations sequentially,
  however, of those operations it only provides multithreaded gemm.
  Thus, mt results for symm/hemm, syrk/herk, trmm, and trsm are
  omitted. Thanks to Sameer Agarwal for his help configuring and
  using Eigen.
- Updated docs/Performance.md to note the new implementation tested.
- CREDITS file update.
2019-08-23 14:18:08 +05:30
Field G. Van Zee
a1c8b11b3f Added Eigen support to test/3 Makefile, runme.sh.
Details:
- Added targets to test/3/Makefile that link against a BLAS library
  build by Eigen. It appears, however, that Eigen's BLAS library does
  not support multithreading. (It may be that multithreading is only
  available when using the native C++ APIs.)
- Updated runme.sh with a few Eigen-related tweaks.
- Minor tweaks to docs/Performance.md.
2019-08-23 14:18:08 +05:30
Field G. Van Zee
366c4b14c0 More minor tweaks to docs/Performance.md.
Details:
- Defined GFLOPS as billions of floating-point operations per second,
  and reworded the sentence after about normalization.
2019-08-23 14:18:08 +05:30
Field G. Van Zee
cd81a6a50a Very minor tweaks to Performance.md. 2019-08-23 14:18:08 +05:30
Field G. Van Zee
6385a3ed51 Minor fixes to docs/Performance.md.
Details:
- Fixed some incorrect labels associated with the pdf/png graphs,
  apparently the result of copy-pasting.
2019-08-23 14:18:08 +05:30
Field G. Van Zee
25db9033d9 Fixed broken section links in docs/Performance.md.
Details:
- Fixed a few broken section links in the Contents section.
2019-08-23 14:18:08 +05:30
Field G. Van Zee
c6793be46e Added docs/Performance.md and docs/graphs subdir.
Details:
- Added a new markdown document, docs/Performance.md, which reports
  performance of a representative set of level-3 operations across a
  variety of hardware architectures, comparing BLIS to OpenBLAS and a
  vendor library (MKL on Intel/AMD, ARMPL on ARM). Performance graphs,
  in pdf and png formats, reside in docs/graphs.
- Updated README.md to link to new Performance.md document.
- Minor updates to CREDITS, docs/Multithreading.md.
- Minor updates to matlab scripts in test/3/matlab.
2019-08-23 14:18:08 +05:30