Testbed for OpenBLAS project

Buy AMD Piledriver and Intel Haswell machines for OpenBLAS project.

Matching pledge

I will personally dollar match every pledge up to $1,000!

Introduction to OpenBLAS

OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library forked from GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.

We obtained a performance comparable with Intel MKL on Intel Sandy Bridge CPU.

Here is the result of the DGEMM subroutine's performance on Intel Core i5-2500K Windows 7 SP1 64-bit:



Goals

Buy the following machines for the experiment and testing.

AMD Piledriver APU. e.g. A10 6800K.

Intel Haswell desktop CPU or Xeon E3 CPU.

Why we need these machines:

We need these machines to optimize BLAS on AMD Piledriver and Intel Haswell micro-architectures.

Although we can remotely access a AMD Piledriver server in Versatus HPC, it's better to have a Piledriver machine in local.

In addition, we didn't have Intel Haswell platform.

Donation from vendors

I have contacted an employee at Intel China. He told me it was very hard. He would try it. So far, I don't get any response from Intel.

I also try to contact AMD China. I don't get any response, too.