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From: ssd@sugar.hackercorp.com (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Are vendors implementing BLAS?
Summary: Partial BLAS from IBM
Message-ID: <3592@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 7 Mar 89 01:47:59 GMT
References: <449@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <449@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu>, bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes:
> 
> Is anyone out there aware of other vendors implementing the BLAS for
> their machines?
> 
> -- 
> David Bernholdt			bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu

Well, I don't know about the complete BLAS package, but IBM's ESSL
(engineering and scientific subroutine library) conforms to some of the
BLAS calling sequences for the functions it does support. Some of ESSL
is excellent in performance (though awkward to use) like FFT's, while
some of it shows little or no performance advantage over straight vector
FORTRAN code until you get to arrays large enough to start experiencing
cache effects.
 
    Scott Denham 
      Western Atlas
        Houston, TX