LAPACK is a library of Fortran 90 with subroutines for solving the most commonly occurring problems in numerical linear algebra. It is freely-available software, and is copyrighted.
LAPACK is available on netlib and can be obtained via the World Wide Web and anonymous ftp.
The distribution tar file contains the Fortran source for LAPACK and the testing programs. It also contains the Fortran77 reference implementation of the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (the Level 1, 2, and 3 BLAS) needed by LAPACK. However this code is intended for use only if there is no other implementation of the BLAS already available on your machine; the efficiency of LAPACK depends very much on the efficiency of the BLAS.
make
. Configuration have to be set in the make.inc
file. A make.inc.example
for a Linux machine running GNU compilers is given in the main directory. Some specific make.inc
are also available in the INSTALL
directory.For further information on LAPACK please read our FAQ at http://www.netlib.org/lapack/#_faq A User forum is also available to help you with the LAPACK library at http://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack-forum/
LAPACK has been thoroughly tested, on many different types of computers. The LAPACK project supports the package in the sense that reports of errors or poor performance will gain immediate attention from the developers. Such reports, descriptions of interesting applications, and other comments should be sent by electronic mail to lapack@cs.utk.edu.
A list of known problems, bugs, and compiler errors for LAPACK is maintained on netlib.
A User forum is also available to help you with the LAPACK library at http://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack-forum/. You can also contact directly the LAPACK team at lapack@cs.utk.edu.
The complete package, including test code in four different Fortran data types (real, complex, double precision, double complex), contains some 805,000 lines of Fortran source and comments. You will need approximately 33 Mbytes to read the complete tape. We recommend that you run the testing. The total space requirements for the testing for all four data types, including the object files, is approximately 80 Mbytes.
A README file containing the information in this letter is located in the LAPACK directory. Postscript and LaTeX versions of the Quick Installation Guide are in the LAPACK/INSTALL
directory, in the files lawn81.tex
, psfig.tex
, lawn81.ps
, and org2.ps
. Consult the Installation Guide for further details on installing the package and on what is contained in each subdirectory. For complete information on the LAPACK Testing please consult LAPACK Working Note 41 "Installation Guide for LAPACK".
It is highly recommended that you obtain a copy of the Third Edition of the LAPACK Users' Guide published by SIAM in Winter, 1999. This Users' Guide gives a detailed description of the philosophy behind LAPACK as well as an explanation of its usage. The LAPACK Users' Guide can be purchased from: SIAM; Customer Service; P. O. Box 7260; Philadelphia, PA 19104; 215-382-9800, FAX 215-386-7999. It will also be available from booksellers.
To order by email, send email to service@siam.org. The book is also available via SIAM's World Wide Web URL at http://www.siam.org. The ISBN number is 0-89871-447-8, and SIAM order code is SE09. The list price for SIAM members is $31.20; the cost for nonmembers is $39.00.
To view an HTML version of the Users' Guide please refer to the URL
http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lug/lapack_lug.html.
LAPACK now includes the LAPACKE package LAPACKE is a Standard C language APIs for LAPACK http://www.netlib.org/lapack/#_standard_c_language_apis_for_lapack collaboration LAPACK and INTEL Math Kernel Library
Documentation available in the DOCS folder
The Fortran95 interface to LAPACK is available, as well as an f2c'ed version of LAPACK, and a C++ version of a subset of LAPACK routines. Refer to the following URLs on netlib for further information:
Or, for more information on the distributed-memory version of LAPACK, consult the ScaLAPACK index on netlib:
http://www.netlib.org/scalapack/
A number of technical reports were written during the development of LAPACK and published as LAPACK Working Notes, initially by Argonne National Laboratory and later by the University of Tennessee. Many of these reports later appeared as journal articles. Most of these working notes are available in pdf and postscript form from netlib.
LAPACK Project, c/o J.J. Dongarra, Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1301, USA, Email: lapack@cs.utk.edu.