Open Source Community Ponders Removing Code Optimizations for Russian Processors

Open Source Community Ponders Removing Code Optimizations for Russian Processors

Even as the international governmental and institutional community ups the pressure on Russia by enforcing increasingly tighter sanctions, a new player may have entered the sanction game. As reported by Phoronix, developers of the popular OpenBLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) library code are mulling whether or not to remove support for Russian-developed Elbrus processors. The…