[gentoo-soc] Benchmarking suite - Report 5

[gentoo-soc] Benchmarking suite - Report 5

[Andrea Arteaga]

As promised, this is my report regarding the benchmarking suite. My
mid-weekly objectives were:

* Implementing the LAPACK test suite
* Clean the source code to improve the mainenability

For the lapack testing suite I started considering the routines
bundled with the sources. Later, I decided to use BTL for lapack too
-- I already use it for blas and cblas -- and implement a few more
actions in order to test the following:
- LU decomposition
- General linear system of equation solver -- implicit: by means of LU
- Least squares problem solver -- implicit: by means of QR
- Cholesky decomposition for SPD matrices
- Eigenvalues retrieval for symmetric matrices

Everything is now working. As the three basic libraries (blas, cblas,
lapack) use the same tools for the benchmarking, much was done in
order to create a single base python script that, with few parameters,
can benchmark many implementations of a library. The weight of the
code is now almost the same than some days ago, but the features have
considerably increased.

Now, beacause of personal reasons, I will be away for ~12 days, which
was unexpected. I already discussed with my mentor and Donnie. I don't
know yet what will happen, but I will anyway continue with my project,
within or not the SoC.

Cheers
Andrea Arteaga