Re: Who uses clapack?

From: Niels L. Ellegaard (gnalle_at_ruc.dk)
Date: 12/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 20:30:42 +0100

see.sig@for.addy (Victor Eijkhout) writes:

> The authors of lapack/scalapack are starting to work on a new
> release of these packages. One of the things we want to address is
> the sillyness that C users, instead of linking to the binaries of
> the Fortran version, use an automatically translated C version.
>
> What are the gotchas, and what are the real stumbling blocks here?
> Please spell it out in as much detail as you can muster. This
> situation really needs to improve.

As a newcomer I remember being confused about having several choices
at hand. The clapack faq contained a working example program and
therefore it appeared easier to get started using clapack.

http://www.netlib.org/clapack/faq.html

I think you could gain users by adding a similar example to the blas
faq or to the Lapack user guide.

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