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Building with an OpenCL BLAS

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5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start by reading the referenced blas-feedstock and the staged-recipes pull requests 3190 and 3196, then review the linked BLAS/Numpy discussion. The work is done when libgpuarray-feedstock has an agreed, documented strategy for handling builds with clBLAS and CLBlast.

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Description

Am working on adding two OpenCL BLASes to conda-forge. In particular am adding clBLAS and CLBlast. IIUC libgpuarray can support one or the other. So am opening this issue to discuss how we handle building libgpuarray. With CPU BLAS support we have a selection package, which determines the CPU BLAS used by all packages. Perhaps a similar strategy makes sense here.

xref: https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/3190
xref: https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/3196
ref: https://github.com/conda-forge/blas-feedstock
ref: https://conda-forge.hackpad.com/BLAS-Numpy-Friends-86De62hoNdT

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