HP MLIB User's Guide Vol. 2 7th Ed.

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VECLIB
Preface
Hewlett-Packard’s high-performance math libraries (HP MLIB) help you speed
development of applications and shorten execution time of long-running
technical applications.
HP MLIB is a collection of subprograms optimized for use on HP servers and
workstations, providing mathematical software and computational kernels for
engineering and scientific applications. HP MLIB can be used on systems
ranging from single-processor workstations to multiprocessor high-end servers.
HP MLIB is optimized for HP PA-RISC 2.0, Itanium 2, and Opteron
processors. HP MLIB has six components; VECLIB, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK,
SuperLU, SOLVERS, and VMATH.
VECLIB
HP VECLIB contains robust callable subprograms. Together with a subset of
the BLAS Standard subroutines, HP MLIB supports the legacy BLAS, a
collection of routines for the solution of sparse symmetric systems of equations,
a collection of commonly used Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs), and
convolutions. Although VECLIB was designed for use with Fortran programs,
C programs can call VECLIB subprograms, as described in Appendix A. Refer
to Part 1 of this manual for HP VECLIB information.
Throughout this document there are references to legacy BLAS and BLAS
Standard routines. Legacy BLAS routines include Basic Linear Algebra
Subprograms (BLAS), that is the level 1, 2, and 3 BLAS, as well as the Sparse
BLAS.
A BLAS standardization effort 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. BLAS
Standard routines refer to routines as defined by this BLAS Standard
specification. HP MLIB supports a subset of BLAS Standard routines. Refer to
Chapter 2, “Basic Vector Operations,” and Chapter 3, “Basic Matrix
Operations,” for details about supported subprograms.