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From: per@tdb.uu.se (Per Wahlund, TDB, Uppsala)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Are vendors implementing BLAS?
Message-ID: <987@tdb.uu.se>
Date: 3 Mar 89 07:51:10 GMT
References: <449@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu>
Organization: Dept. of scientific comp., Uppsala univ., Sweden
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In article <449@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu>, bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes:
> I understand that Cray has implemented the BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra
> Subroutines) in assembler for their machines.  The means all of the
> BLAS: levels 1, 2, and 3 (I'm not sure about sparse-BLAS-1, though).
> 
> Is anyone out there aware of other vendors implementing the BLAS for
> their machines?
> 

   I am not aware of any vendors implementing BLAS, although they
   certainly are to some extent. However, there is an all-European
   research institute called C.E.R.F.A.C.S. in Toulouse, France,
   working with large-scale computations. They have a research group
   for parallel algorithms and they are at least using BLAS 1, 2, 3
   on different machines and I think they are also working on special
   implmentations. In that case the machines are IBM 3090, ETA-10
   and Alliant FX/80, (and perhaps also Encore Multimax, which is
   sold under the name Matra in France)


      Per Wahlund
      Dept. of Scientific Computing
      Sturegatan 4B
      S-752 23 Uppsala, SWEDEN