A Look at Library Software for Linear Algebra: Past, Present, and Future

6/18/98


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Table of Contents

A Look at Library Software for Linear Algebra: Past, Present, and Future

1960’s

Wilkinson-Reinsch Handbook

1970’s

NATS Project

EISPACK

EISPACK

1970’s continued

Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms

CRAY and VAX

LINPACK

LINPACK

LINPACK Efficiency

1980’s Vector Computing (Parallel Processing)

1980’s continued

1980’s (Lost Decade for Parallel Software)

EISPACK 3 and BLAS 2 & 3

Netlib - Mathematical Software and Data

Netlib Growth

1990’s

PPT Slide

Parallel Processing Comes of Age

Memory Hierarchy and LAPACK

Why Higher Level BLAS?

History of Block Partitioned Algorithms

LAPACK

PPT Slide

1990’s continued

Templates Project

ScaLAPACK

High-Performance Computing Directions

Heterogeneous Computing

Java - For Numerical Computations?

Network Enabled Servers

Future: Petaflops ( fl pt ops/s)

Summary

PPT Slide

Author: Jack Dongarra

Email: dongarra@cs.utk.edu

Home Page: http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/