diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2e85117c9..f4c547701 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -55,16 +55,23 @@ Please read GotoBLAS_01Readme.txt #### x86/x86-64: - **Intel Xeon 56xx (Westmere)**: Used GotoBLAS2 Nehalem codes. -- **Intel Sandy Bridge**: Optimized Level-3 BLAS with AVX on x86-64. -- **Intel Haswell**: Optimized Level-3 BLAS with AVX on x86-64 (identical to Sandy Bridge). +- **Intel Sandy Bridge**: Optimized Level-3 and Level-2 BLAS with AVX on x86-64. +- **Intel Haswell**: Optimized Level-3 and Level-2 BLAS with AVX2 and FMA on x86-64. - **AMD Bobcat**: Used GotoBLAS2 Barcelona codes. -- **AMD Bulldozer**: x86-64 S/DGEMM AVX kernels. (Thank Werner Saar) -- **AMD PILEDRIVER**: Used Bulldozer codes. +- **AMD Bulldozer**: x86-64 ?GEMM FMA4 kernels. (Thank Werner Saar) +- **AMD PILEDRIVER**: Uses Bulldozer codes with some optimizations. #### MIPS64: - **ICT Loongson 3A**: Optimized Level-3 BLAS and the part of Level-1,2. - **ICT Loongson 3B**: Experimental +#### ARM: +- **ARMV6**: Optimized BLAS for vfpv2 and vfpv3-d16 ( e.g. BCM2835, Cortex M0+ ) +- **ARMV7**: Optimized BLAS for vfpv3-d32 ( e.g. Cortex A8, A9 and A15 ) + +#### ARM64: +- **ARMV8**: Experimental + ### Support OS: - **GNU/Linux** - **MingWin/Windows**: Please read . @@ -116,8 +123,8 @@ Please see Changelog.txt to obtain the differences between GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD ve * Please read [Faq](https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/wiki/Faq) at first. * Please use gcc version 4.6 and above to compile Sandy Bridge AVX kernels on Linux/MingW/BSD. * Please use Clang version 3.1 and above to compile the library on Sandy Bridge microarchitecture. The Clang 3.0 will generate the wrong AVX binary code. -* The number of CPUs/Cores should less than or equal to 256. -* On Linux, OpenBLAS sets the processor affinity by default. This may cause [the conflict with R parallel](https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-hpc/2012-April/001348.html). You can build the library with NO_AFFINITY=1. +* The number of CPUs/Cores should less than or equal to 256. On Linux x86_64(amd64), there is experimental support for up to 1024 CPUs/Cores and 128 numa nodes if you build the library with BIGNUMA=1. +* OpenBLAS does not set processor affinity by default. On Linux, you can enable processor affinity by commenting the line NO_AFFINITY=1 in Makefile.rule. But this may cause [the conflict with R parallel](https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-hpc/2012-April/001348.html). * On Loongson 3A. make test would be failed because of pthread_create error. The error code is EAGAIN. However, it will be OK when you run the same testcase on shell. ## Contributing