Chapter 92

BLAS

Jack Dongarra

University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and University of Manchester

Victor Eijkhout

The University of Texas at Austin

Julien Langou

University of Colorado, Denver

92.1 Introduction

A significant amount of execution time in complicated linear algebraic programs is known to be spent in a few low-level operations. Consequently, reducing the overall execution time of an application program leads to the problem of optimizing these low-level operations. Such low-level optimizations are highly machine-dependent and are a matter for specialists. A separation has, therefore, been made by the computational linear algebra community: On the one hand, highly efficient, machine-dependent building blocks of linear ...

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