From maintainers-request at octave dot org Tue Jun 28 17:24:11 2005
Subject: OSKI, an automatically tuned sparse kernel library.
From: Richard Vuduc <richie at cs dot berkeley dot edu>
To: maintainers at octave dot org
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:29:26 -0500

Octave developers,

My colleagues and I have released an initial implementation of OSKI, a 
library that provides automatically tuned sparse matrix kernels like 
sparse matrix-vector multiply and triangular solve. It's designed to 
have BLAS-style functionality, and is similar in spirit to ATLAS and 
FFTW, which I'm sure are familiar to this group.

    http://bebop.cs.berkeley.edu/oski

I just wanted to mention OSKI, in case it might be of future interest to 
you. I imagine it would be a lot of work to provide an option to use 
OSKI within Octave, but at the very least, I invite your comments on 
whether the OSKI interface (described in its User's Guide) would provide 
adequate useful functionality.

Best regards,
--rich