Contents

• • Introduction
  • Revisions Since the First Public Release
  • File Format
  • Overview of Tape Contents
    • LAPACK Routines
    • Level 1, 2, and 3 BLAS
    • LAPACK Test Routines
    • LAPACK Timing Routines (for LAPACK 3.0 and before)
  • Installing LAPACK on a Unix System
    • Untar the File
    • Copy and edit the file LAPACK/make.inc.example to LAPACK/make.inc
    • Edit the file LAPACK/Makefile
  • Further Details of the Installation Process
    • Test and Install the Machine-Dependent Routines.
    • Create the BLAS Library
    • Run the BLAS Test Programs
    • Create the LAPACK Library
    • Create the Test Matrix Generator Library
    • Run the LAPACK Test Programs
    • Run the LAPACK Timing Programs (For LAPACK 3.0 and before)
    • Send the Results to Tennessee
    • Get support
  
  
• Caveats
  • LAPACK/make.inc
  • ETIME
  • ILAENV and IEEE-754 compliance
  • Lack of /tmp space
  • BLAS
  • Optimization
  • Compiling testing/timing drivers
  • IEEE arithmetic
  • Timing programs
  
  
• Bibliography