# Contributions to the OpenBLAS project ## Creator & Maintainer * Zhang Xianyi ## Active Developers * Wang Qian * Optimize BLAS3 on ICT Loongson 3A. * Optimize BLAS3 on Intel Sandy Bridge. * Werner Saar * [2013-03-04] Optimize AVX and FMA4 DGEMM on AMD Bulldozer * [2013-04-27] Optimize AVX and FMA4 TRSM on AMD Bulldozer * [2013-06-09] Optimize AVX and FMA4 SGEMM on AMD Bulldozer * [2013-06-11] Optimize AVX and FMA4 ZGEMM on AMD Bulldozer * [2013-06-12] Optimize AVX and FMA4 CGEMM on AMD Bulldozer * [2013-06-16] Optimize dgemv_n kernel on AMD Bulldozer * [2013-06-20] Optimize ddot, daxpy kernel on AMD Bulldozer * [2013-06-21] Optimize dcopy kernel on AMD Bulldozer * Porting and Optimization on ARM Cortex-A9 * Optimization on AMD Piledriver * Optimization on Intel Haswell ## Previous Developers * Zaheer Chothia * Improve the compatibility about complex number * Build LAPACKE: C interface to LAPACK * Improve the windows build. * Chen Shaohu * Optimize GEMV on the Loongson 3A processor. * Luo Wen * Intern. Test Level-2 BLAS. ## Contributors In chronological order: * pipping * [2011-06-11] Make USE_OPENMP=0 disable openmp. * Stefan Karpinski * [2011-12-28] Fix a bug about SystemStubs on Mac OS X. * Alexander Eberspächer * [2012-05-02] Add note on patch for segfaults on Linux kernel 2.6.32. * Mike Nolta * [2012-05-19] Fix building bug on FreeBSD and NetBSD. * Sylvestre Ledru * [2012-07-01] Improve the detection of sparc. Fix building bug under Hurd and kfreebsd. * Jameson Nash * [2012-08-20] Provide support for passing CFLAGS, FFLAGS, PFLAGS, FPFLAGS to make on the command line. * Alexander Nasonov * [2012-11-10] Fix NetBSD build. * Sébastien Villemot * [2012-11-14] Fix compilation with TARGET=GENERIC. Patch applied to Debian package. * [2013-08-28] Avoid failure on qemu guests declaring an Athlon CPU without 3dnow! * Kang-Che Sung * [2013-05-17] Fix typo in the document. Re-order the architecture list in getarch.c. * Kenneth Hoste * [2013-05-22] Adjust Makefile about downloading LAPACK source files. * Lei WANG * [2013-05-22] Fix a bug about wget. * Dan Luu * [2013-06-30] Add Intel Haswell support (using sandybridge optimizations). * grisuthedragon * [2013-07-11] create openblas_get_parallel to retrieve information which parallelization model is used by OpenBLAS. * Elliot Saba * [2013-07-22] Add in return value for `interface/trtri.c` * Sébastien Fabbro * [2013-07-24] Modify makefile to respect user's LDFLAGS * [2013-07-24] Add stack markings for GNU as arch-independent for assembler files * Viral B. Shah * [2013-08-21] Patch LAPACK XLASD4.f as discussed in JuliaLang/julia#2340 * Lars Buitinck * [2013-08-28] get rid of the generated cblas_noconst.h file * [2013-08-28] Missing threshold in gemm.c * [2013-08-28] fix default prefix handling in makefiles * yieldthought * [2013-10-08] Remove -Wl,--retain-symbols-file from dynamic link line to fix tool support * Keno Fischer * [2013-10-23] Use FC instead of CC to link the dynamic library on OS X * Christopher Meng * [2013-12-09] Add DESTDIR support for easier building on RPM based distros. Use install command instead of cp to install files with permissions control. * Lucas Beyer * [2013-12-10] Added support for NO_SHARED in make install. * carlkl * [2013-12-13] Fixed LAPACKE building bug on Windows * Isaac Dunham * [2014-08-03] Fixed link error on Linux/musl * Dave Nuechterlein * [2014-10-10] trmm and sgemm kernels (optimized for APM's X-Gene 1). ARMv8 support. * Jerome Robert * [2015-01-01] Speed-up small `ger` and `gemv` using stack allocation (bug #478) * [2015-12-23] `stack_check` in `gemv.c` (bug #722) * [2015-12-28] Allow to force the number of parallel make job * [2015-12-28] Fix detection of AMD E2-3200 detection * [2015-12-31] Let `make MAX_STACK_ALLOC=0` do what expected * [2016-01-19] Disable multi-threading in `ger` and `swap` for small matrices (bug #731) * [2016-01-24] Use `GEMM_MULTITHREAD_THRESHOLD` as a number of ops (bug #742) * [2016-01-26] Let `openblas_get_num_threads` return the number of active threads (bug #760) * [2016-01-30] Speed-up small `zger`, `zgemv`, `ztrmv` using stack allocation (bug #727) * Dan Kortschak * [2015-01-07] Added test for drotmg bug #484. * Ton van den Heuvel * [2015-03-18] Fix race condition during shutdown causing a crash in gotoblas_set_affinity(). * Martin Koehler * [2015-09-07] Improved imatcopy * Ashwin Sekhar T K * [2015-11-09] Assembly kernels for Cortex-A57 (ARMv8) * [2015-11-20] lapack-test fixes for Cortex-A57 * [2016-03-14] Additional functional Assembly Kernels for Cortex-A57 * [2016-03-14] Optimize Dgemm 4x4 for Cortex-A57 * [Your name or handle] <[email or website]> * [Date] [Brief summary of your changes]