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BLACS
- Abstract
- The BLACS (Basic Linear Algebra Communication Subprograms) project is an ongoing investigation whose purpose is to create a linear algebra oriented message passing interface that may be implemented efficiently and uniformly across a large range of distributed memory platforms.
- DateOfInformation
- Fri Jun 12 12:36:36 1998
- Domain
- Numerical Programs and Routines!Linear algebra
- Name
- BLACS
- TargetEnvironment
- MPI, PVM, HP Exemplar (MPI), IBM SP series (MPL), Intel series (NX), SGI Origin 2000 (MPI), Thinking Machines CM-5 (CMMD). Several vendors are producing optimized versions of the BLACS (e.g. Cray, IBM)
- Version
- 1.1
- Webpage
- http://www.netlib.org/blacs/
- ContactIs
- BLACS maintainers
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