[SciPy-dev] Reason for failures inscipy.test() ?

[Nils Wagner]

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On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Nils Wagner wrote: 
 
> Dear experts,  
>   
> Can someone reproduce these failures with latest cvs ?  
>   
> 
======================================================================  
> FAIL: check_random_complex  
> (scipy.linalg.decomp.test_decomp.test_cholesky)  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------  
> 
======================================================================  
> FAIL: check_simple_complex  
> (scipy.linalg.decomp.test_decomp.test_cholesky)  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------  
 
No, I cannot reproduce these errors under Python 2.1.3, 2.2.3, 2.3.2 
when using the recent cvs (only under 2.1 I get few  
fitpack,stats,special related errors that you have already reported). 
I am currently using 
  atlas2-sse2 3.2.1ln-11 from sid 
  Numeric 23.1 
  gcc 3.3.2 
 
> I guess these failures are related to ATLAS or gcc, since  
> I was able to run scipy.test() on another system without  
> any failures. They differ in ATLAS and gcc.  
 
This could be the case. What gcc are you using? 
 
> Any idea or hint ?  
>   
> Nils  
>   
> ATLAS version 3.4.2 built by root on Fre Sep 12 22:56:10 UTC 2003:  
>    UNAME    : Linux linux 2.4.20-4GB-athlon #1 Mon Mar 17 17:56:47  
> UTC 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux  
>    INSTFLG  :  
>    MMDEF    : /home/nwagner/mysoftware/ATLAS/CONFIG/ARCHS/ 
> ATHLONSSE1/gcc/gemm  
>    ARCHDEF  : /home/nwagner/mysoftware/ATLAS/CONFIG/ARCHS/ 
> ATHLONSSE1/gcc/misc  
 
I am not sure but using sse1 might cause less accurate results. 
Make sure that your are using the current CVS version of scipy_distutils 
that disables sse1 flag when sse2 is available (do your machine have sse2 
Run `python scipy_distutils/command/cpuinfo.py`). 
 
I'll later try the other versions of atlas as well. 
 
Pearu 
 
What is the meaning of sse2 ? 
 
nwagner at jane:~/cvs/scipy/scipy_core> python scipy_distutils/command/
cpuinfo.py 
 
CPU information: getNCPUs has_3dnow has_3dnowext has_mmx has_sse 
is_AMD is_singleCPU 
 
_________________wagner at jane:~/myoffice> gcc -v 
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/specs 
Konfiguriert mit: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr 
--with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man 
--libdir=/usr/lib --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java,ada --disable-checking 
--enable-libgcj --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/g++ --with-slibdir=/lib 
--with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit i586-suse-linux 
Thread model: posix 
gcc-Version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux) 
nwagner at jane:~/myoffice> 
 
Nils 
 
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