HP-UX 11i December 2002 Release Notes

HP-UX 11i Version 1.0 Operating Environment Applications
HP-UX 11i Technical Computing Operating Environment (TCOE)
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This version simplifies sparse solver interface use and improves its performance. Version
4.0 of the METIS reordering technology has been incorporated.
You can now use the C or C++ compiler to link applications built with MLIB. (Previous to
this release, you were required to link using the Fortran compiler when using VECLIB
or LAPACK.)
Documentation
For more detailed documentation and additional product information, see:
• The HP MLIB User’s Guide (B6061-96020) and the HP MLIB Release Notice
(B6061-96019) available at the following URLs:
http://docs.hp.com/
http://www.hp.com/rsn/mlib/mlibhome.html/
• Manpages:
— BLAS Standard manpages (new for 11i)
— LAPACK 3.0 manpages (revised)
— VECLIB manpages (revised)
— Sparse BLAS manpages (new for September 2002)
— ScaLAPACK manpages (new for September 2002)
— Distributed SuperLU manpages (new for September 2002)
HP 3D Technology for the Java Platform
The HP 3D Technology for the Java 2 Platform contains the classes for creating 3D
applications. The HP 3D Technology for the Java Platform may be distributed with your
Java applications as long as you adhere to the terms of the LICENSE file. Vendors also
need to include an installer.
Documentation
For prerequisites, installation requirements, and information read the release notes
included in the HP 3D software. Or for the most up-to-date information, go to the Web at
http://www.hp.com/go/java.
HP Message-Passing Interface (MPI)
HP Message-Passing Interface (MPI) is a high-performance implementation of the
Message-Passing Interface Standard. HP MPI complies fully with the 1.2 standard and
partially with the 2.0 standard. HP MPI provides an application programming interface
and software libraries to support parallel, message-passing applications that are
efficient, portable, and flexible.
updated for
December 2002
HP MPI has been updated to version 1.8.2 to incorporate minor defect fixes. No new
functionality has been added since version 1.8.1.
updated for
September 2002
New features of HP MPI version 1.8.1:
• New start-up utility: mpirun.all
• stdio is no longer processed by default