LAPACK - AshokBhat/notes GitHub Wiki
About
FAQs
- Who is behind LAPACK?
- Is LAPACK an API or Library?
- A Library with C and Fortran API
- Libraries can implement LAPACK functionality with the same API as
netlib
LAPACK
- What does it provide?
- Higher-level sequential linear algebra operations
- Routines to solve
- Systems of linear equations
- Linear least squares
- Eigenvalue problems
- Singular value decomposition
- Does it use BLAS?
- Can LAPACK be part of commercial libraries?
- Netlib LAPACK is a reference implementation
- Vendors can incorporate LAPACK functionality in their libs with the same API as netlib LAPACK
- Can LAPACK be parallel?
- Only if underlying BLAS is parallel (for example OpenMP enabled BLAS)
See also
- [MPI]] ](/AshokBhat/notes/wiki/[[BLAS)