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LAPACK / ScaLapack
A Scalable Library for
Distributed Memory Machines

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• LAPACK success (from HP-48G to CRAY C-90)
  • Targets workstations, vector machines, shared memory
  • Initial release in April 1992
  • 10,261 requests since then (as of 10/94)
  • Dense and banded matrices
  • Linear systems, least squares, eigenproblems
  • Manual available from SIAM
  • Being translated into Japanese and Russian
  • Second release was available 9/94, manual summer 1994
• Provide useful scientific program libraries for computational scientists working on new parallel architectures
  • Move to new generation high performance machines - SP-1, T3D, Paragon, CM-5, KSR, ...
  • Add functionality (generalized
    eigenproblem, sparse matrices, ...)