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OpenBLAS

OpenBLAS is a software module available on Comet.

Important!

Note that libblas is also provided by LAPACK. You should choose the correct BLAS library based on the requirements of your other applications.

OpenBLAS overview

To access OpenBLAS on Comet, run module load OpenBLAS. This will load the default version of OpenBLAS.

An overview of the module information is shown below (module -r spider ^OpenBLAS$):

OpenBLAS:
    Description:
      OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.

     Versions:
        OpenBLAS/0.3.20-GCC-11.3.0
        OpenBLAS/0.3.23-GCC-12.3.0
        OpenBLAS/0.3.24-GCC-13.2.0
        OpenBLAS/0.3.27-GCC-13.3.0
        OpenBLAS/0.3.30-GCC-13.3.0
        OpenBLAS/0.3.30

  For detailed information about a specific "OpenBLAS" package (including how to load the modules) use the module's full name.
  Note that names that have a trailing (E) are extensions provided by other modules.
  For example:

     $ module spider OpenBLAS/0.3.30

If there are multiple versions of OpenBLAS listed, then you can load a specific version as follows:

$ module load OpenBLAS/version_string

You can find the most up to date information whilst logged on to Comet by running module -r spider ^OpenBLAS$.


OpenBLAS Help

The module OpenBLAS has the following embedded help text (module help OpenBLAS):

Description
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OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.

More information
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 - Homepage: http://www.openblas.net/


OpenBLAS Dependencies

The default version of the module OpenBLAS has the following dependencies:


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