Basic HTML version of Foils prepared December 6 98

Foil 15 Why ATLAS is needed

From Java Access to Numerical Libraries: Compiling Fortran to Java SC98 Orlando Java Grande Panel -- November 13 98. by Jack Dongarra, Christian Deane, Keith Seymour, Clint Whaley
BLAS require many man-hours / platform
  • Only done if financial incentive is there
    • Many platforms will never have an optimal version
  • Lags behind hardware
  • May not be affordable by everyone
Operations may be important, but not general enough for standard
Allows for portably optimal codes
Pentium's running Linux

© Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

If you have any comments about this server, send e-mail to webmaster@npac.syr.edu.

Page produced by wwwfoil on Sun Dec 6 1998