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Initializing matrices for dgemm (beginner question)

psinclairegi_com — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:14:25 GMT

I would expect the following C code...

double a[3*3] = { 0.3804, -0.7225, 0.5774,

-0.8159, 0.0318, 0.5774,

0.4355, 0.6907, 0.5774};

double b[3*6] = { 1.0006, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000,

0.0000, 0.4887, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000,

0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000};

double c[3*6] = { 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000,

0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000,

0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000};

int m = 3;

int n = 6;

int k = 3;

double alpha = 1;

double beta = 0;

int lda = m;

int ldb = k;

int ldc = m;

dgemm("N", "N", &m, &n, &k, α, a, &lda, b, &ldb, β, c, &ldc);

...to fill matrix c with:

0.3806, -0.3531, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000,

-0.8164, 0.0155, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000,

0.4358, 0.3375, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000

My own matrix multiplication code does this, MATLAB does this, and the first 2 matrix multiplication apps that I tried online produced the above result. (http://www.bluebit.gr/matrix-calculator/matrix_multiplication.aspx)

dgemm will only return a similar result if I first transpose matrix a (it returns the same numbers but transposed). What am I doing wrong?

Initializing matrices for dgemm (beginner question)

Gennady_F_Intel — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:58:30 GMT

please try to usecblas_dgemm() instead of dgemm().

Please look at this article. May be it will usefull.

--Gennady

Initializing matrices for dgemm (beginner question)

psinclairegi_com — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:24:43 GMT

"...Be sure to store data Fortran-style, i.e. data stored column-major rather than row-major order. We recommend that C and C++ programmers use the CBLAS interface to avoid simple mistakes when following these conventions.."

Thank you very much. Works fine now.

Initializing matrices for dgemm (beginner question)

Gennady_F_Intel — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:06:59 GMT

Thanks for the feedback. Precisely for these purposes and has been written this article.

--Gennady