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Is this approach similar to or inspired by ATLAS? Sounds like it to me at first glance.

• bee_rider 3y ago
  They are solving the same problem (tuning a BLAS). ATLAS tries to automate it away. For BLIS, instead they isolated the part that requires hand-tuning so you only have to write a couple kernels, then they can use them for the whole library. BLIS is quite a bit newer and I’d be surprised if ATLAS kept up.
  • pletnes 3y ago
    Right, I guess DGEMM (or parts of it) is all you need for surprisingly many operations.
    • bee_rider 3y ago
      Wonder if anyone has taken “GEMM is all you need” as a paper title yet.
• gnufx 3y ago
  No, and ATLAS is dead. BLIS is a systematic evolution of the "Goto" approach.