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1 | The BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) are high quality "building | | 1 | The BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) are high quality "building |
2 | block" routines for performing basic vector and matrix | | 2 | block" routines for performing basic vector and matrix |
3 | operations. Level 1 BLAS do vector-vector operations, Level 2 BLAS do | | 3 | operations. Level 1 BLAS do vector-vector operations, Level 2 BLAS do |
4 | matrix-vector operations, and Level 3 BLAS do matrix-matrix | | 4 | matrix-vector operations, and Level 3 BLAS do matrix-matrix |
5 | operations. Because the BLAS are efficient, portable, and widely | | 5 | operations. Because the BLAS are efficient, portable, and widely |
6 | available, they're commonly used in the development of high quality | | 6 | available, they're commonly used in the development of high quality |
7 | linear algebra software, LINPACK and LAPACK for example. | | 7 | linear algebra software, LINPACK and LAPACK for example. |
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| | | 9 | This package contains the Fortran 77 reference implementation of BLAS. |