Chapter 93

LAPACK

Zhaojun Bai

University of California-Davis

James Demmel

University of California-Berkeley

Jack Dongarra

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

Julien Langou

University of Colorado, Denver

Jenny Wang

University of California-Davis

93.1 Introduction

LAPACK (linear algebra package) is an open source library of programs for solving the most commonly occurring numerical linear algebra problems [ABB99]. Complete documentation as well as source codes are available online at the Netlib repository [LAP]. LAPACK provides driver routines for solving complete problems such as linear equations, linear least squares problems, eigenvalue problems, and singular value problems. Each driver routine ...

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