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This package is matlib drivers for Rindow-math-matrix. These drivers act as adapters to drive PHP FFI. Each PHP C Libraries requires a separate download and installation of a binary file appropriate for your environment's PHP version and OS version.

Rindow Math Matrix is the fundamental package for scientific matrix operation

A powerful N-dimensional array object
Sophisticated (broadcasting) functions
Tools for integrating C/C++ through the FFI
Useful linear algebra and random number capabilities

Please see the documents on Rindow mathematics projects web pages.

Rindow Math Matrix's repository is here.

Requirements

PHP 8.1 or PHP8.2 or PHP8.3 or PHP8.4
Rindow Math Matrix v2.0 or later
Rindow Matlib 1.0.0 or later
OpenBLAS 0.3.20 or later
OpenCL 1.1 or later
CLBlast 1.5.2 or later

Download pre-build binaries from each projects

You can perform very fast N-dimensional array operations in conjunction. Download the pre-build binary files from each project's release page.

Pre-build binaries

Setup for Windows

Download the binary file, unzip it, and copy it to the execution directory.

rindow-matlib-X.X.X-win64.zip
OpenBLAS-X.X.X-x64.zip
CLBlast-X.X.X-windows-x64.zip

Add FFI extension to php.ini

C:\TMP> cd \path\to\php\directory
C:\PHP> notepad php.ini

extension=ffi

C:\TMP> PATH %PATH%;\path\to\binary\directories\bin
C:\TMP> cd \your\progject\directory
C:\PRJ> composer require rindow/rindow-math-matrix
C:\PRJ> composer require rindow/rindow-math-matrix-matlibffi
C:\PRJ> vendor/bin/rindow-math-matrix
Service Level   : Accelerated
Buffer Factory  : Rindow\Math\Buffer\FFI\BufferFactory
BLAS Driver     : Rindow\OpenBLAS\FFI\Blas(THREAD)
LAPACK Driver   : Rindow\OpenBLAS\FFI\Lapack
Math Driver     : Rindow\Matlib\FFI\Matlib(OPENMP)
OpenCL Factory  : Rindow\OpenCL\FFI\OpenCLFactory
CLBlast Factory : Rindow\CLBlast\FFI\CLBlastFactory

The OpenCL 1.2 environment is already set up if you are using the Windows standard driver.

If you add the -v option as shown below, the driver loading status at boot time will be displayed. It will help with troubleshooting.

C:\PRJ> vendor/bin/rindow-math-matrix -v

Setup for Linux

Install each library using the apt command.

Make sure FFI extension is enabled.

$ php -m | grep FFI
FFI

Download the pre-build binary file.

https://github.com/rindow/rindow-matlib/releases

Please install using the apt command.

$ sudo apt install ./rindow-matlib_X.X.X_amd64.deb

Since rindow-matlib currently uses ptheads, so you should choose the pthread version for OpenBLAS as well. In version 1.0 of Rindow-matlib we recommended the OpenMP version, but now we have changed our policy and are recommending the pthread version. This issue does not occur on Windows.

$ sudo apt install libopenblas0 liblapacke

If you want to use GPU, install the OpenCL environment. In addition, there are the following drivers.

mesa-opencl-icd
beignet-opencl-icd
intel-opencl-icd
nvidia-opencl-icd-xxx
pocl-opencl-icd

$ sudo apt install clinfo
$ sudo apt install mesa-opencl-icd
$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/usr/lib
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/clc /usr/local/usr/lib/clc

And then, Install the fast matrix calculation library for OpenCL. If you use Ubuntu22.04 or Debian 12 or later, You can install it from distribution packages.

$ sudo apt install libclblast1

If You use Ubuntu20.04 or Debian 11, You need to download clblast from Github and make deb file. Please download the CLBlast installation script from the rindow-clblast-ffi release page.

$ wget https://github.com/rindow/rindow-clblast-ffi/releases/download/X.X.X/clblast-packdeb.zip
$ unzip clblast-packdeb.zip
$ sh clblast-packdeb.sh
$ sudo apt install ./clblast_X.X.X_amd64.deb

And then, Install the rindow-math-matrix on your project directory.

$ composer require rindow/rindow-math-matrix
$ composer require rindow/rindow-math-matrix-matlibffi
$ vendor/bin/rindow-math-matrix
Service Level   : Accelerated
Buffer Factory  : Rindow\Math\Buffer\FFI\BufferFactory
BLAS Driver     : Rindow\OpenBLAS\FFI\Blas(OPENMP)
LAPACK Driver   : Rindow\OpenBLAS\FFI\Lapack
Math Driver     : Rindow\Matlib\FFI\Matlib(OPENMP)
OpenCL Factory  : Rindow\OpenCL\FFI\OpenCLFactory
CLBlast Factory : Rindow\CLBlast\FFI\CLBlastFactory

If you add the -v option as shown below, the driver loading status at boot time will be displayed. It will help with troubleshooting.

$ vendor/bin/rindow-math-matrix -v

Check driver status

You can check the driver settings by running the sample below.

<?php
// status.php
include_once __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
use Rindow\Math\Matrix\MatrixOperator;

$mo = new MatrixOperator();

echo $mo->service()->info();

$ php status.php
Service Level   : Accelerated
Buffer Factory  : Rindow\Math\Buffer\FFI\BufferFactory
BLAS Driver     : Rindow\OpenBLAS\FFI\Blas(OPENMP)
LAPACK Driver   : Rindow\OpenBLAS\FFI\Lapack
Math Driver     : Rindow\Matlib\FFI\Matlib(OPENMP)
OpenCL Factory  : Rindow\OpenCL\FFI\OpenCLFactory
CLBlast Factory : Rindow\CLBlast\FFI\CLBlastFactory

Troubleshooting for Linux

Using the OpenMP version of OpenBLAS can cause conflicts and become unstable and slow. This issue does not occur on Windows.

If you have already installed the OpenMP version of OpenBLAS, you can delete it and install pthread version.

$ sudo apt install libopenblas0-pthread liblapacke
$ sudo apt remove libopenblas0-openmp

But if you can't remove it, you can switch to it using the update-alternatives command.

$ sudo update-alternatives --config libopenblas.so.0-x86_64-linux-gnu
$ sudo update-alternatives --config liblapack.so.3-x86_64-linux-gnu

If you really want to use the OpenMP version of OpenBLAS, please switch to the serial version of rindow-matlib.

But, If you really want to use the pthread version of OpenBLAS, please switch to the serial version of rindow-matlib.

$ sudo update-alternatives --config librindowmatlib.so
There are 2 choices for the alternative librindowmatlib.so (providing /usr/lib/librindowmatlib.so).

  Selection    Path                                             Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/lib/rindowmatlib-openmp/librindowmatlib.so   95        auto mode
  1            /usr/lib/rindowmatlib-openmp/librindowmatlib.so   95        manual mode
  2            /usr/lib/rindowmatlib-serial/librindowmatlib.so   90        manual mode
  3            /usr/lib/rindowmatlib-thread/librindowmatlib.so   100       manual mode

Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 2

Choose the "rindowmatlib-serial".

Acceleration with GPU

You can use GPU acceleration on OpenCL.

Note:

This OpenCL support extension works better in your environment and helps speed up your laptop environment without n-NVIDIA.

Tested on Coffee Lake iGPU.

In the Windows environment, Integrated GPU usage was more effective than CPU, and it worked comfortably.

However, OLD AMD APU on Linux, libclc used in linux standard mesa-opencl-icd is very buggy and slow. If you have testable hardware, please test using the proprietary driver.

It now works comfortably with various adjustments on Windows Standard OpenCL Driver. However, the old Intel Integrated GPU is not very high compared to its CPU performance, so please use the right person in the right place.

And it worked fine and fast in Ubuntu 24.04 + intel-opencl-icd environment.

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