Netlib provides the following features:

• There are no administrative channels to go through.
  
  
• Since no human processes the request, it is possible to get software at any time, even in the middle of the night.
  
  
• The most up-to-date version is always available.
  
  
• Individual routines or pieces of a package can be obtained instead of a whole collection.
  

Over around 10000 requests a day.

Software collection about 1 Gbytes

21K file in 330 libraries/directories