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

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Chapter objectives
Chapter objectives
After reading this chapter you will:
• Understand BLAS storage conventions
• Know how to specify array sections
• Know how to handle backward storage
• Know how to use increment (also called stride) arguments
• Understand the vector subprograms included with HP VECLIB, both
Legacy BLAS and BLAS Standard subprograms
Associated documentation
The following documents provide supplemental material for this chapter:
Dodson, D.S., R.G. Grimes, and J.G. Lewis. “Sparse Extensions to the Fortran
Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms.” ACM Transactions on Mathematical
Software. June, 1991. Vol. 17, No. 2.
Dodson, D.S., R.G. Grimes, and J.G. Lewis. “Algorithm 692: Model
Implementation and Test Package for the Sparse Basic Linear Algebra
Subprograms.” ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software. June, 1991. Vol.
17, No. 2.
Lawson, C., R. Hanson, D. Kincaid, and F. Krogh. “Basic Linear Algebra
Subprograms for Fortran Usage.” ACM Transactions on Mathematical
Software. September, 1979. Vol. 5, No. 3.