new software releases - LAPACK and XNETLIB

[David G. Hough on validgh]

From: Jack Dongarra <dongarraacs.utk.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 92 12:36:44 -0500
Subject: LAPACK is Now Available

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LAPACK is a transportable library of Fortran 77 subroutines for
solving the most common problems in numerical linear algebra: systems
of linear equations, linear least squares problems, eigenvalue problems,
and singular value problems. It has been designed to be efficient
on a wide range of modern high-performance computers.

LAPACK is intended to be the successor to LINPACK and EISPACK.
It extends the functionality of these packages by including driver 
routines, iterative refinement and error bounds for linear systems, the 
capability for finding selected eigenvalues and invariant subspaces, and 
condition estimation for the eigenproblem.  LAPACK improves on the accuracy 
of standard algorithms for linear systems, for finding singular values and 
singular vectors of bidiagonal matrices, and for finding eigenvalues and 
eigenvectors of tridiagonal matrices.  The algorithms and software in the 
package have been restructured to achieve high efficiency on vector processors, 
high-performance ``superscalar'' workstations, and shared memory 
multiprocessors. In addition to the LAPACK routines, comprehensive 
testing and timing suite is provided along with the LAPACK software.

The LAPACK Users' Guide will be available from SIAM in or around May, 1992.
The Users' Guide gives an informal introduction to the design of the algorithms
and software, summarizes the contents of the package, describes conventions
used in the software and documentation, and includes complete specifications
for calling the routines. 

The LAPACK routines are available from netlib for users who require only 
selected pieces of the package.
For a description of the contents of LAPACK, send email to
netlibaornl.gov, and in the mail message type: send index from lapack.
A set of working notes are available from netlib as well and details
can be found in the index to LAPACK.

The complete LAPACK package can be obtained on magnetic media from NAG for a
nominal handling charge. For further details, contact NAG at one of these
addresses: 

NAG Inc                       NAG Ltd              NAG GmbH
1400 Opus Place               Wilkinson House      Schleissheimerstrasse 5
Suite 200                     Jordan Hill Road     W-8046 Garching bei Munchen
Downers Grove, IL 60515-5702  Oxford OX2 8DR       Germany 
USA                           England
Tel: +1 708 971 2337          Tel: +44 865 511245  Tel: +49 89 3207395
Fax: +1 708 971 2706          Fax: +44 865 310139  Fax: +49 89 3207396


LAPACK has been funded in part by NSF, DOE, and DARPA, with
developmental support from NAG Ltd., Cray Research, and many friends
and colleagues around the world.

Ed Anderson, Zhao-jun Bai, Chris Bischof, Jim Demmel, Jack Dongarra, 
Jeremy Du Croz, Anne Greenbaum, Sven Hammarling, Alan McKenney, 
Susan Ostrouchov, and Danny Sorensen


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From: Jack Dongarra <dongarraacs.utk.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 92 17:21:23 -0500
Subject: Second Release of XNETLIB

We have a second release version of XNETLIB.

XNETLIB is a new version of NETLIB recently developed at the University
of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  Unlike NETLIB, which
uses electronic mail to process requests for mathematical software,
XNETLIB uses an X Window graphical user interface and a socket-based
connection between the user's machine and the XNETLIB server machine to
process software requests.

To receive a copy of XNETLIB send the message "send xnetlib.shar from
xnetlib" to netlibaornl.gov.

When you receive the shar file, remove the mail header, save it to a
file, type 'sh filename' and follow the instructions in the README
file.

Send comments to xnetlibacs.utk.edu.

Jack Dongarra
Tom Rowan
Reed Wade