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The detailed explanation is probably in the original publication authored by Kazushige Goto - Goto, Kazushige; van de Geijn, Robert A; Anatomy of high-performance matrix multiplication. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS). Volume 34 Issue 3, May 2008
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While this article is paywalled and too old for preprints to be available on arxiv.org, more recent
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publications like https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.00076 contain at least a brief description of the algorithm.
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In practice, the values are derived by experimentation to yield the block sizes that give the highest performance. A general rule of thumb for selecting a starting point seems to be that PxQ is about half the size of L2 cache.
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In practice, the values are derived by experimentation to yield the block sizes that give the highest performance. A general rule of thumb for selecting a starting point seems to be that PxQ is about half the size of L2 cache. R needs to be greater than the bigger of P and Q by
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at least 64, or bad things will happen with the work splitting in (at least) POTRF.
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### <a name="reportbug"></a>How can I report a bug?
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