Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) has released newly-created example programs for LAPACK, a library of numerical linear algebra subroutines designed for high performance on workstations, vector computers and shared memory processors. The programs are designed to help less experienced users to call LAPACK routines correctly.
NAG, a provider of mathematical and statistical software for developers, has been involved in the effort to create LAPACK since the inception of the LAPACK project.
NAG principal consultant Sven Hammarling has ensured that the entire LAPACK 3 routines and corrections have been included in NAG’s Library software. Hammarling explains that the example programs were created as a service to the open source community.
“From monitoring the LAPACK list and forum I could see that example programs would be very useful to help many users get started with LAPACK, and would probably help many existing users as well,” Hammarling said. “The example programs have been extracted from NAG Library example programs and made LAPACK-friendly.”