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

1082 HP MLIB LAPACK User’s Guide
Chapter objectives
Chapter objectives
After reading this chapter you will:
• Know how to access BCSLIB-EXT subprograms
• Know what BCSLIB-EXT can do
• Know where to find additional documentation
Associated documentation
This chapter is based on The Boeing Extreme Mathematical Library
BCSLIB-EXT, Fourth Edition, 20462-0520-R4.2 March 2004, The Boeing
Company. This document is distributed in electronic format under the HP
MLIB source tree installed in /opt/mlib/doc.
Accessing BCSLIB-EXT
BCSLIB-EXT is part of the BCSLIB-EXT library. For BCSLIB-EXT with
support for integers that are 8 bytes in length use the SOLVERS8 library.
MLIB libraries are installed in the /opt/mlib/ directory. The entire path depends
on your system type. Refer to “Accessing LAPACK” on page 629for compiling
and linking examples.
BCSLIB-EXT functionality
BCSLIB-EXT is a library of Fortran subprograms to solve problems in sparse
linear algebra. It addresses the following linear algebra problems:
• Linear equations