Current State of the Art of Mathematical Software for Linear Algebra
Outline
Important Sources of Software and Information
Freely Available LA SW on the Web
Directions
The Importance of Standards - Software
Why Higher Level BLAS?
Linear Algebra Library in F77
LAPACK Ongoing Work
Challenges in Developing Distributed Memory Libaries
The MPI Forum
Portability of Numerical Software
ScaLAPACK
ScaLAPACK Structure
Choosing a Data Distribution
Parallelism in ScaLAPACK
ScaLAPACK - What’s Included
Heterogeneous Computing
Iterative solvers (B. Smith et al)
ARPACK (D. Sorensen)
Java
Java for Numerical Computations?
LAPACK to JAVA
Parameterized Libraries
Motivation for Network Enabled Solvers
PPT Slide
On Math Software
References
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