BLAS Technical Forum http://www.netlib.org/utk/papers/blast-forum.html
Established a Forum to consider expanding the BLAS in light of modern software, language, and hardware developments.
Began with a workshop in November 1995 at the University of Tennessee.
Met 3 times a year
- Typically 15-20 people attended
- Vendors, researchers, application developers
Working proposals for the following:
- Dense/Band BLAS
- Sparse BLAS
- Extended and Mixed Precision BLAS
- Interval BLAS
- C interfaces to Legacy BLAS