BLACS

General Information

Short Description: Basic linear algegra comm subprogram

Long Description:
The BLACS (Basic Linear Algebra Communication Subprograms) is an on-going research project that concentrates on providing a message passing interface to linear algebra oriented applications. The BLACS interface makes linear algebra applications more portable and easier to program in distributed memory environments. BLACS consists of a kernel comparable to BLAS routines but which run on various platforms. Well-known programs that use BLACS are ScaLAPACK and PARPACK.

Category: Mathematics and Statistics

Vendor/Developer:

Vendor Website: http://www.netlib.org/

Software Website: http://www.netlib.org/blacs/

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Installation Information

Version: 1.1      Version Date: 0000-00-00

Installed Site: National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Installed Platform: Intel 64 Linux Cluster

Point of Contact: Greg Bauer

Installation Status: Complete

Installation Date: 2007-12-22

Usage Information

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Usage Information:
MPI BLACS is located in /usr/apps/math/blacs/BLACS with versions for MVAPICH2, Open MPI and MPICH-VMI. Please see the SCALAPACK entry for information on linking to BLACS.

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Type of License: N/A

Type of Installation: Available to all allocated users

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