Bug 1389724 - please use OpenBLAS
Summary: please use OpenBLAS
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: R
Version: el6
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Tom "spot" Callaway
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2016-10-28 10:29 UTC by Dave Love
Modified: 2016-12-14 02:48 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: R-3.3.2-2.el7 R-3.3.2-2.fc25 R-3.3.2-2.fc24 R-3.3.2-2.el6 R-3.3.2-2.el5
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Last Closed: 2016-12-12 21:51:05 UTC
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Description Dave Love 2016-10-28 10:29:23 UTC
Description of problem:

[I'm surprised this hasn't come up before, but I can't see a previous request.]

In the absence of sanity for the linear algebra base in Fedora, I think R should use openblas on the targets that have it (x86_64 %{ix86} armv7hl %{power64} aarch64), not reference BLAS.  As it is, the relevant operations are typically an order of magnitude slower than they could be, though I don't know how much that affects typical R use. Using openblas would also sidestep the problems with el5,6's libblas noted in the spec.

There's an example of what reference BLAS costs at the end of <https://loveshack.fedorapeople.org/blas-subversion.html>, which describes the workaround I use (see also #1389719) and refers to people pushing a proprietary solution.  (The serial matrix multiplication exRmple is a factor of 13 slower than it could be on Sandy Bridge.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

R-core-3.3.1-2.el6.x86_64

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2016-11-01 18:34:11 UTC
rkward-0.6.5-3.fc23 rpy-2.8.3-1.fc23 R-3.3.2-2.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-0ba2f71eaa

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-11-01 18:34:31 UTC
rkward-0.6.5-3.fc24 rpy-2.8.3-1.fc24 R-3.3.2-2.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-5440b32232

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-11-01 18:34:46 UTC
R-3.3.2-2.el7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-416d702575

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-11-01 18:35:00 UTC
R-3.3.2-2.el6 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 6. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-a1e9b3e561

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-11-01 18:35:14 UTC
rkward-0.6.5-3.fc25 rpy-2.8.3-1.fc25 R-3.3.2-2.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-91292caee5

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-11-01 18:35:29 UTC
R-3.3.2-2.el5 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 5. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-40629afe0a

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-11-02 14:52:05 UTC
R-3.3.2-2.fc25, rkward-0.6.5-3.fc25, rpy-2.8.3-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-91292caee5

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-11-04 17:20:15 UTC
R-3.3.2-2.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-a1e9b3e561

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2016-11-04 17:22:24 UTC
R-3.3.2-2.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-416d702575

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2016-11-05 01:46:31 UTC
R-3.3.2-2.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-40629afe0a

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2016-11-05 03:31:22 UTC
R-3.3.2-2.fc24, rkward-0.6.5-3.fc24, rpy-2.8.3-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-5440b32232

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2016-12-12 21:51:05 UTC
R-3.3.2-2.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2016-12-12 23:55:50 UTC
R-3.3.2-2.fc25, rkward-0.6.5-3.fc25, rpy-2.8.3-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2016-12-13 02:24:47 UTC
R-3.3.2-2.fc24, rkward-0.6.5-3.fc24, rpy-2.8.3-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2016-12-13 18:20:29 UTC
R-3.3.2-2.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2016-12-14 02:48:43 UTC
R-3.3.2-2.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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