Basic HTML version of Foils prepared December 6 98
Foil 4 Why Higher Level BLAS?
From Java Access to Numerical Libraries: Compiling Fortran to Java SC98 Orlando Java Grande Panel -- November 13 98. byJack Dongarra, Christian Deane, Keith Seymour, Clint Whaley
Can only do arithmetic on data at the top of the hierarchy
Higher level BLAS lets us do this
Development of blocked algorithms important for performance