Dongarra on LAPACK at Stanford - 5 Feb 91

[Herbert H Taylor III]

 David Hough writes:

** There are those who argue that LAPACK design emphasis should be the
** current and forthcoming high-performance RISC/Unix desktops that most
** scientists will be using rather than the increasingly select minority
** depending on high-performance supercomputers; those will probably be
** distinguished from the desktops primarily by massive parallelism and
** enormous memory and I/O bandwidth.
...

** This talk outlines the proposed computational package called LAPACK.
** LAPACK is planned to be a collection of Fortran 77 subroutines for the
** analysis and solution of various systems of simultaneous linear
** algebraic equations, linear least-squares problems, and matrix
** eigenvalue problems.

   The SIMD Massively Parallel machines all seem to be implementing
Fortran 90. Will TMC, MasPar, et al have SIMD versions of LAPACK? Or,
will an entirely different set of routines be called for?

  Herb Taylor