Is CLAPACK 3.2.1 really thread safe?

[chengiz]

On http://www.netlib.org/clapack/, CLAPACK 3.2.1 is mentioned to be threadsafe.
However, looking at the code, dlamch.c is definitely not thread safe, and dlaln2.c does not appear to be thread safe.
Also, dlacon.c and (in CBLAS) drotmg.c do not appear to be thread safe, but they seem to be unused.
Am I missing something? Thank you.

[admin]

Now we advice to use LAPACK/LAPACKE combination instead of CLAPACK.
To get those library, just download LAPACK 3.4.0 at http://netlib.org/lapack/
Those will be thread safe for sure.
Julie

[chengiz]

Unfortunately we cant do that because we dont always have fortran compilers.

[utflame]

You may want to try libflame. It does not require Fortran and is comparable to LAPACK (when linked to the right BLAS library). It is also thread safe.

(A few years ago, we found a lot of problems with thread safety in LAPACK, particularly in routines related to the application of Householder transformations. This was fixed by properly labeling parameters as being INPUT/OUTPUT, but that is a bit tricky and only identifies the routines as not being thread safe. It is possible that more recently this was fixed further. I have not checked recently.)

Check http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/flame/ to see if it has the functionality you need. Let us know if you need help.

Robert

[chengiz]

@utflame

Thanks, but your software is GPL which I cannot use.