OpenBlas
In scientific computing, OpenBLAS is an open source implementation of the BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) APIwith many hand-crafted optimizations for specific processor types. It is developed at the Lab of Parallel Software and Computational Science, ISCAS.
OpenBLAS adds optimized implementations of linear algebra kernels for several processor architectures, including IntelSandy Bridge[2] and Loongson.[3] It claims to achieve performance comparable to the Intel MKL.
OpenBLAS is a fork of GotoBLAS2, which was created by Kazushige Goto at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
Blas
Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) is a specification that prescribes a set of low-level routines for performing common linear algebra operations such as vector addition, scalar multiplication, dot products, linear combinations, andmatrix multiplication. They are the de facto standard low-level routines for linear algebra