About lack of documentatio in some interfaces in MAGMA 1.3.0

[jgpallero]

Hello:

I have some questions about the documentation in some MAGMA functions:

1. About magma_dgels_gpu:
Acoording to the interface

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double *dA,    magma_int_t ldda,
double *dB,    magma_int_t lddb,
double *hwork, magma_int_t lwork,
...


I understand that dA and dB matrices should be on the GPU and vector hwork in computer RAM (not in GPU). Am I right about the hvector?
The help in dgels_gpu.cpp says

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A       (input/output) DOUBLE_PRECISION array, dimension (LDA,N)
            On entry, the M-by-N matrix A.
            On exit, A is overwritten by details of its QR
            factorization as returned by DGEQRF.


so I think it should be updated in order to inform that the matrix should be on the GPU, as for the dB matrix says.

2. About magma_dgetri_gpu:

It has an error in the help. Where says:

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DWORK    (workspace/output) COMPLEX*16 array on the GPU, dimension (MAX(1,LWORK))


should say:

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DWORK    (workspace/output) DOUBLE PRECISION array on the GPU, dimension (MAX(1,LWORK))


[Stan Tomov]

Thanks for these documentation bug reports! We fixed them in the SVN.
Regarding the hvector question, you are right, it is on the CPU memory. An example on how to use the routine is in testing_dsgeqrsv_gpu.cpp. This routines tests mixed precision, as well as working precision solvers like the magma_dgels_gpu.