Article proposal: Introduction to BLAS

Article Summary:
An article to better explain the BLAS spec with practical examples

Article Description:
I would like to propose an article to introduce programmers to BLAS spec and implementations from fortran to openblas and the flexiblas wrapper that fedora is using. Some historical context and some examples to show how fast is a blas library compared to a custom implementation and how it can be imported and used if fast matrix operations are needed. As of now from personal experience I can tell the information is sparse across various wikipedia, discontinued webpages.

+1. Thanks! :slightly_smiling_face:

@romangherta I’ve opened Pagure ticket #318 for you article.

Thanks!

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Good morning

Based on the some feedback I received I would like to ask you to operate some small changes on this article if it’s not too late

  • In the flexiblas chapter pls correct the name to Martin Köhler or Martin Koehler.
  • The flexiblas paper should also have a link to http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lawnspdf/lawn284.pdf
  • In the first flexiblas paragraph this line " plasma, magma, atlas, and the blas …" should all be in uppercase.

I tried to edit but I don’t think I have the permission to do this now.

Thank you and sorry for the short notice

No problem. Done.

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