Supporting OpenBLAS Maintenance and Improvements :: Sovereign Tech Fund | May 2023

"OpenBLAS is a highly optimized library for linear algebra calculations. This makes OpenBLAS an essential base technology of the NumPy and SciPy libraries, as well as of the R and Julia programming languages, making it an essential component to the leading open source scientific programming systems. Linear algebra is essential for many processes in mathematics, science, computer science, machine vision and machine learning, by enabling developers and researchers to perform computations extremely quickly....Despite its wide usage across those industries, OpenBLAS is mantained and contributed to by relatively small team. This investment will focus on building sustainable improvements to the development, integration and testing of the library, as well as provide additional support to the maintainers of OpenBLAS and of SciPy as a key dependent project to achieve some strech goals to further improve the utility of the OpenBLAS library. Specifically, the work funded will include maintainance and build improvements, addressing bottlenecks and compatability, addressing some known issues, creating a benchmark and building in support for new CPU types and features."