Re: Who uses clapack?

From: Roman Werpachowski (_at_theta1.cft.edu.pl)
Date: 12/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:56:10 +0000 (UTC)

On the Mon, 13 Dec 2004 03:49:42 GMT, Jentje Goslinga wrote:
> My situation is even worse: if I have work, I may have to do
> real work rather than work on my hobby projects.

Doing science is my *real* work.

>
> In summary, and in reply to the OP, many of the readers of
> this newsgroup just work at home using a PC and a C compiler
> and would not consider purchasing a Fortran compiler for
> Lapack when they can extract the required code from Lapack
> or CLapack in a matter of days.

Neither will I, for 2 reasons:

1. there is GCC with its Fortran compiler, and
2. there is ACML (AMD Core Math Library), which has full
LAPACK and BLAS, and is available for free. 

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