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- NETLIB is a network-based facility for the automated distribution of the
- source code for public domain scientific software. Most of this software is
- written in FORTRAN, but some software is available in C, C++, and PASCAL.
- Software is available for a wide variety of applications. The following
- list -- which is far from exhaustive -- should give the reader an idea of
- the scope of the NETLIB collection.
-
-
- NUMERICAL METHODS:
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- * Linear Algebra (basic linear algebra subroutines, eigenvalue and
- eigenvector computations, matrix factorizations, least squares)
- * Sparse Matrix Calculations
- * Numerical Optimization
- * Spline Interpolation
- * Ordinary Differential Equations
- * Fast Fourier Transforms
- * Special Functions
-
-
- WELL-KNOWN SOFTWARE:
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- * Collected algorithms of the Association of Computing Machinery
- (ACM) Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)
- * LINPACK and EISPACK subroutine libraries
- * AMS TeX and SIAM typesetting macros
- * MATLAB applications packages
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- SOFTWARE FOR ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES:
-
- * Libraries for supporting parallel computation
- * Libraries for computation on vector-processor machines
-
-
- MISCELLANEOUS:
-
- * Multiple-precision floating-point arithmetic packages (e.g.,
- Brents MP; Smiths FM, from TOMS algorithms)
- * Benchmark programs for comparing computing platforms
- * Collections of problems for testing numerical software
- * Programming aids such as single-precision-to-double-precision and
- FORTRAN-to-C conversion utilities
- * Companion software to various textbooks (e.g., Cheney & Kincaid;
- Forsythe, Malcolm, and Moler)
- * Bibliographies
-
-
- Information and software (e.g., an index of available software, or the
- source code to LINPACK) are obtained by sending requests -- via electronic
- mail -- to a NETLIB mail server at one of the following Internet addresses:
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- netlib@research.att.com (AT&T Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA)
- netlib@ornl.gov (Oak Ridge Nat. Lab, Tenn., USA)
- netlib@ukc.ac.uk (Univ. of Kent, UK)
- netlib@nac.no (Oslo, Norway)
- netlib@draci.cs.uow.edu.au (Univ. of Wollongong, NSW, Australia)
-
- Upon receipt of an appropriately worded request, the NETLIB mail server
- responds by sending the information or software requested to the electronic
- mail address of the requestor. Depending on your location, the amount of
- network traffic, and other factors, you may actually receive a reply within
- minutes of submitting your request!
-
- Note that the software available and services provided may differ somewhat
- >from one NETLIB site to another. For example, the AT&T Bell Labs site,
- research.att.com, also provides: (1) access to the NETLIB software via FTP
- (login with username netlib), and (2) access to an interactive biblio-
- graphic search system via TELNET (login with username walk).
-
- To obtain more detailed instructions on the use of NETLIB, as well as an
- index of the software currently available from a particular NETLIB site,
- send the following one-line message to a NETLIB mail server (selected from
- the above list -- usually the geographically closest site):
-
- send index
-
- Note that some mail trailers may possibly confuse the NETLIB mail servers.
- If you encounter problems, you might want to suppress the use of your usual
- signature file when sending requests to NETLIB via electronic mail.
-
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