Drotmg is crazy

[kortschak]

This seems to continue the saga of Drotmg. This test passes on travis, but fails on my laptop (ubuntu 14.04) using OpenBLAS (deb package).

The two failing cases are blas.Diagonal with a non-zero first column.

$ CGO_LDFLAGS="-lopenblas" go test -run Drotmg
--- FAIL: TestDrotmg (0.00s)
    level1double.go:1622: drotmg H mismatch AbsQ1_LT_AbsQU__D2_Pos: expected [0.4166666666666667 0 0 0.625], found [0 0.4166666666666667 0 0.625]
    level1double.go:1622: drotmg H mismatch D1=D2_X1=X2: expected [1 0 0 1], found [0 1 0 1]
FAIL
exit status 1
FAIL    github.com/gonum/blas/cblas 0.007s

[btracey]

Ugh. I'll see if I can get OpenBLAS installed. The OpenBLAS team was responsive to the last bug I filed.

[btracey]

Works fine for me on OSX

[btracey]

Opened a bug on OpenBLAS https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/484

[kortschak]

I've just built OpenBLAS from source (xianyi/OpenBLAS@17b9db20f1fccbfcdc54aa69ab75605e738807c1) with the same failure result.

$ uname -pr
3.13.0-43-generic x86_64
$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) 4.8.2
<snip>

[fhs]

Also failing when using reference implementation:

$ CGO_LDFLAGS=-lcblas go test -test.run Drotmg
--- FAIL: TestDrotmg (0.00s)
    level1double.go:1662: drotmg H mismatch RD1_Big_RD2_Big_Flag_0: expected [4096 -3584 1792 4096], found [4096 -4096 1 4096]
    level1double.go:1662: drotmg H mismatch RD1_Big_RD2_Big_Flag_1: expected [2340.5714285714284 -4096 4096 4681.142857142857], found [2340.5714285714284 -4096 1 4681.142857142857]
    level1double.go:1662: drotmg H mismatch D1_Big_D2_Small_Flag_1: expected [2.8671999999999997e-26 -0.000244140625 4096 2.44140625e-16], found [2.8671999999999997e-26 -0.000244140625 1 2.44140625e-16]
    level1double.go:1662: drotmg H mismatch D1_Small_D2_Big_Flag_1: expected [2.3731773997569866e+10 -1.6777216e+07 0.000244140625 1.6777216e-07], found [2.3731773997569866e+10 -4096 1 1.6777216e-07]
FAIL

I'm using Arch Linux 64-bit on amd64.

[btracey]

Yea, I think the reference implementation is wrong. It has the same problem that OpenBLAS did before the bug was fixed

https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/365 https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/365

On Jan 3, 2015, at 8:18 AM, Fazlul Shahriar notifications@github.com wrote:

Also failing when using reference implementation:

$ CGO_LDFLAGS=-lcblas go test -test.run Drotmg --- FAIL: TestDrotmg (0.00s) level1double.go:1662: drotmg H mismatch RD1_Big_RD2_Big_Flag_0: expected [4096 -3584 1792 4096], found [4096 -4096 1 4096] level1double.go:1662: drotmg H mismatch RD1_Big_RD2_Big_Flag_1: expected [2340.5714285714284 -4096 4096 4681.142857142857], found [2340.5714285714284 -4096 1 4681.142857142857] level1double.go:1662: drotmg H mismatch D1_Big_D2_Small_Flag_1: expected [2.8671999999999997e-26 -0.000244140625 4096 2.44140625e-16], found [2.8671999999999997e-26 -0.000244140625 1 2.44140625e-16] level1double.go:1662: drotmg H mismatch D1_Small_D2_Big_Flag_1: expected [2.3731773997569866e+10 -1.6777216e+07 0.000244140625 1.6777216e-07], found [2.3731773997569866e+10 -4096 1 1.6777216e-07] FAIL I'm using Arch Linux 64-bit on amd64.

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[kortschak]

This appears to be an ubuntu bug. My build was shadowed by the deb so I saw the effect always. Removing the deb install and rebuilding/installing I see the correct behaviour.

[jonlawlor]

This prevents us from using apt-get in the travis builds (which use ubuntu), so we'll have to continue building OpenBLAS from scratch.

[kortschak]

I have filed an upstream bug and commited a test to OpenBLAS to satisfy the packager. I haven't seen any movement on that yet; I will not hold my breath.

[jonlawlor]

Yeah, they move slowly. Debian stable is still on go 1.2.1. I just wanted to document why travis builds can't be sped up easily.