Computers for which LAPACK is Suitable



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Computers for which LAPACK is Suitable

LAPACK is designed to give high efficiency  on vector processors, high-performance ``super-scalar'' workstations, and shared memory multiprocessors. LAPACK in its present form is less likely to give good performance on other types of parallel architectures (for example, massively parallel SIMD machines, or distributed memory machines), but work has begun to try to adapt LAPACK to these new architectures. LAPACK can also be used satisfactorily on all types of scalar machines (PC's, workstations, mainframes). See Chapter 3 for some examples of the performance achieved by LAPACK routines.




Tue Nov 29 14:03:33 EST 1994