HP MLIB User's Guide Vol. 1 7th Ed.

Chapter 1 Introduction to VECLIB 3
Standardization
Standardization
VECLIB conforms to a variety of existing standards. For example, it includes
Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS), levels 1, 2, and 3, and Sparse
BLAS.
These products are available with standardized user interfaces on computers
ranging from microcomputers to supercomputers. Because VECLIB conforms to
these standards, it is a software bridge from other computers to
Hewlett-Packard servers and workstations. However, even though the user
interface is standardized, internal workings of HP VECLIB subprograms have
been specialized for supported computers.
HP MLIB supports a subset of the BLAS Standard routines. BLAS
standardization efforts, supported by software and hardware vendors and
university groups, began with a BLAS Technical (BLAST) Forum meeting in
November 1995 at the University of Tennessee. The efforts of the BLAST
Forum resulted in a BLAS Standard specification in 1999. Refer to Chapter 2,
“Basic Vector Operations,” and Chapter 3, “Basic Matrix Operations,” for
details of supported subprograms.
Accessing VECLIB
The VECLIB and VECLIB8 libraries are available as archive and shared
libraries. They consist of compiled subprograms ready for you to incorporate
into your programs with the linker. Include the appropriate declarations and
CALL statements in your Fortran source program and specify that VECLIB or
VECLIB8 be used as an object library at link time. Refer to the LAPACK
chapter for details about accessing the LAPACK library, The ScaLAPACK
chapter for details about accessing the ScaLAPACK library, and the Distributed
SuperLU chapter for details about accessing the Distributed SuperLU library.
MLIB libraries are installed in the /opt/mlib/ directory. The entire path depends
on your system type, as follows: