NetSolve is able to use any scientific linear algebra package available on the platforms it is installed on, provided that the formalism in the previous sections remains valid. This feature allows the NetSolve administrator not only to choose the best platform on which to install NetSolve, but also to select the best packages available on the chosen platform.
The current implementation of NetSolve at the University of Tennessee uses the BLAS [2], [3], [4], LAPACK [5], ItPack [6], and LINPACK [7]. These packages are available on a large number of platforms and are freely distributed.
The use of ScaLAPACK [8] on massively parallel processors would be a way to use the power of high-performance parallel machines via NetSolve.