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- NIC 11122 Lawrence McDaniel
- NWG/RFC 382 Center for Advanced
- Computation
- University of Illinois
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- August 3, 1972
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- MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARE ON THE ARPA NETWORK
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- There have been several efforts in the past few years to develop high
- quality libraries of mathematical and statistical subroutines. Some
- of the projects mentioned in the literature include:
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- 1. The Bell Laboratories numerical mathematics program library project.
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- 2. IMSL Inc.: IMSL Library I, mathematical-statistical computer
- subroutines
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- 3. The NATS (National Science Foundation,Argonne Laboratories, Stanford
- and Texas) joint project on the Wilkinson linear algebra routines.
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- The ARPA Network could further enhance the desirability of such libraries
- as they would become another sharable network resource. Although the
- diversity of network computing no doubt requires an equally diverse set
- of mathematical software, and in spite of the fact everyone has their
- own software hangups - not to mention hardware!, it seems everyone
- could benefit from some type of information interchange regarding mathe-
- matical software of interest.
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- In particular I would welcome any information on your experiences with
- mathematical and statistical libraries, especially regarding those
- mentioned above.
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- We do plan on obtaining the NATS library and with the project's cooperation,
- intend to make it available on several Network IBM/360-370's and PDP-10's.
- Those interested should send me a message via NIC (ident LM) or get in
- touch with me at (217) 333-8497.
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- [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
- [ into the online RFC archives by BBN Corp. under the ]
- [ direction of Alex McKenzie. 1/97 ]
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