rpmbuild - empty RPMS directory

[arnaud gaboury]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Dave Love <d.love at liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:
> arnaud gaboury <arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have been working on my first rpmbuild since quite a few days now.
>>
>> The rpm is intendeed to install R[0] built with Intel MKL libraries
>> and Intel compiler. As a base for the spec file, I used the one from
>> Fedora R package[1].
>
> Why?  I ask as someone who supports R rpms on HPC systems and knows a
> bit about relevant libraries and compilers.

Please visit this blog[0] or many other talking about R-benchmark.R.
>
> If you want to subvert R's BLAS (and other slower versions) with
> something largely optimal, look at the openblas-compat package under
> <https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/loveshack/livhpc/>.  [Yes, linear
> algebra in Fedora is a shambles, with at least one failed attempt to
> sort it out, but adding Intel stuff will only make things worse, and
> that package finesses the issue fairly handily.]

I agree than open-blas is a good soultion, but not as fast as the
Intel BLAS libraries.

[0]http://blog.nguyenvq.com/blog/2014/11/10/optimized-r-and-python-standard-blas-vs-atlas-vs-openblas-vs-mkl/
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