OpenBLAS 0.3.18 Released With LoongArch64 Support, More Optimizations

OpenBLAS 0.3.18 is out today as the latest feature update to this widely-used, open-source BLAS implementation.

OpenBLAS 0.3.18 brings a wide assortment of improvements and fixes, some of the highlights include:

- Support for LoongArch (LoongArch64) as the new Loongson MIPS-based CPU architecture.

- Intel Skylake X S/DGEMM kernels for small problem sizes.

- Optimized SBGEMM for Intel Cooper Lake processors.

- Support for run-time CPU core/thread count detection on Haiku OS.

- Better performance for DASUM on IBM POWER10.

- Crash fixes for Apple M1 on macOS.

- Fixed building under BSDs on MIPS/MIPS64.

- OpenBLAS at run-time when exceeding the build-time set number of pre-configured threads, an auxiliary control structure will be allocated with up to an additional 512 threads. The current/prior behavior of OpenBLAS was aborting when exceeding the pre-configured thread count.

Downloads and more details on OpenBLAS 0.3.18 at GitHub.