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diff --git a/math/lapack/DESCR b/math/lapack/DESCR index 72e7874eff6..0ae22553729 100644 --- a/math/lapack/DESCR +++ b/math/lapack/DESCR @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +The BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) are high quality "building +block" routines for performing basic vector and matrix +operations. Level 1 BLAS do vector-vector operations, Level 2 BLAS do +matrix-vector operations, and Level 3 BLAS do matrix-matrix +operations. Because the BLAS are efficient, portable, and widely +available, they're commonly used in the development of high quality +linear algebra software, LINPACK and LAPACK for example. + LAPACK is a highly portable Fortran 77 library which provides routines for solving systems of simultaneous linear equations, least-squares solutions of linear systems of equations, eigenvalue problems, and @@ -8,3 +16,7 @@ and estimating condition numbers. Dense and banded matrices are handled, but not general sparse matrices. In all areas, similar functionality is provided for real and complex matrices, in both single and double precision. + +This package contains the Fortran 77 reference implementation of BLAS +and LAPACK from Netlib. The C wrappers CBLAS and LAPACKE are provided +in separate packages. |