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Name: Sun Performance Library

Version: Forte Developer 7

Description:

Sun Performance Library is bundled with Sun's Forte Developer 7 compiler suite. It includes optimized routines for matrix and vector operations, systems of linear equations, linear least squares problems, eigenproblems, matrix factorization and decomposition, symmetric and unsymmetric sparse matrices, 1- and 2-D convolution and correlation, 1-, 2-, and 3-D FFTs, cosine and sine transforms, and support functions such as condition numbers, transposes, inverses, determinants, etc. Sun Performance Library includes enhanced versions of the widely used BLAS 1-3 and LAPACK 3.0 libraries (including backward compatibility with LAPACK 1.x and 2.0). It also features an interval arithmetic version of the BLAS library (IBLAS).

The mathematical routines in Sun Performance Library have been tuned for the UltraSPARC architecture (including 64-bit addressing), have both C and Fortran interfaces, and include support for parallelism on multiprocessor SMP nodes.

Additional optimized math and support libraries (sunmath, mopt, mvec, m9x, copt, cx) are supplied with Forte Developer 7. See the Numerical Computation Guide for more information.

Installation Path:

/opt/SUNWspro

Documentation:

Usage Notes:

These libraries have been designed for use with Sun's compilers, and require certain compiler flags to be set for full performance and compatibility. Consult the Performance Library User's Guide for details.