[Csdp] Differences between versions 5 and 6

[Nestor Aguilera]

On 28 Feb 2008, at 16:59, Brian Borchers wrote:

> Without examining the problems and the output from both versions of
> the code, it's difficult to say exactly what could be the cause of
> this improvement in performance.
>
> There were relatively few changes to the code between version 5 and
> version 6 of CSDP, and on a single processor machine the OpenMP stuff
> should make no difference in performance.  If you see that both
> versions 5 and 6 used about the same number of iterations then I'd bet
> that any improvement is due to using a more highly optimized set of
> BLAS/LAPACK libraries when the newer version of CSDP was built.

Notice also that the numerical results are slightly different (using 
the same single processor).

Thanks,

Nestor