Acknowledgements

During the development of the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) Technical Forum Standard, many people served in positions of responsibility and are listed below.

The primary chapter authors are the following:

We would like to thank the individuals from the following organizations who have written the reference implementations: University of California, Berkeley, University of Houston, Downtown, University of Notre Dame, University of Tennessee, HP/Convex, NAG, NIST, and CERFACS.

Specifically, we thank the following students at the University of California, Berkeley, for their work on the reference implementations and proofreading of various versions of the document: Ben Wanzo, Berkat Tung, Weihua Shen, Anil Kapur, Michael Martin, Jimmy Iskandar, Yozo Hida, Teresa Tung, Yulin Li.

We would like to thank the following vendors and ISPs: Cray, Digital/Compaq, HP/Convex, IBM, Intel, NEC, SGI, Tera, NAG, and VNI.

We thank Paul McMahan of the University of Tennessee for preparing the commenting and voting pages on the BLAST webpage.

We would like to thank the members of the global community who have posted comments, suggestions, and proposals to the email reflector and the BLAS Technical Forum webpage.

And lastly, we would like to thank the attendees of the BLAS Technical Forum meetings:

Andy Anda, Ed Anderson, Zhaojun Bai, David Bailey, Satish Balay, Puri Bangalore, Claus Bendtsen, Jesse Bennett, Mike Berry, Jeff Bilmes, Susan Blackford, Phil Bording, Clay Breshears, Sandra Carney, Mimi Celis, Andrew Chapman, Samar Choudhary, Edmond Chow, Almadena Chtchelkanova, Andrew Cleary, Isom Crawford, Michel Dayde, John Dempsey, Theresa Do, Dave Dodson, Jack Dongarra, Craig Douglas, Paul Dressel, Jeremy Du Croz, Iain Duff, Carter Edwards, Salvatore Filippone, Rob Gjertsen, Roger Golliver, Cormac Garvey, Ian Gladwell, Bruce Greer, Bill Gropp, John Gunnels, Fred Gustavson, Sven Hammarling, Richard Hanson, Hidehiko Hasegawa, Satomi Hasegawa, Greg Henry, Mike Heroux, Jeff Horner, Gary Howell, Mary Beth Hribar, Chenyi Hu, Steve Huss-Lederman, Melody Ivory, Naoki Iwata, Bo Kagstrom, Velvel Kahan, Chandrika Kamath, Linda Kaufman, David Kincaid, Jim Koehler, Vipin Kumar, Rich Lee, Steve Lee, Guangye Li, Jin Li, Sherry Li, Hsin-Ying Lin, John Liu, Andew Lumsdaine, Dave Mackay, Kristin Marshoffe, Kristi Maschhoff, Brian McCandless, Joan McComb, Noel Nachtigal, Jim Nagy, Esmond Ng, Tom Oppe, Antoine Petitet, Roldan Pozo, Avi Purkayastha, Padma Raghavan, Karin Remington, Yousef Saad, Majed Sidani, Jeremy Siek, Tony Skjellum, Barry Smith, Ken Stanley, Pete Stewart, Shane Story, Chuck Swanson, Francoise Tisseur, Anne Trefethen, Anna Tsao, Robert van de Geijn, Phuong Vu, Kevin Wadleigh, David Walker, Bob Ward, Jerzy Wasniewski, Clint Whaley, Yuan-Jye Jason Wu, Chao Yang, and Guodong Zhang.