yandell@uwstat.UUCP (Brian Yandell) (03/12/86)
There is a network facility for acquiring subroutines from
standard mathematical and statistical libraries run by one
of the national labs. Here is our help-file on the beast:
[Note that use should be restricted to getting subroutines
rather than whole libraries, to keep network traffic manageable!]
I n d e x f o r N E T L I B
Many math and stat libraries are available over the network.
A recent index is append to this page.
To access routines in these libraries, simply
mail netlib
(netlib is aliased to netlib@anl-mcs) with the mail message
being commands as follows (up to #, of course):
send index # send current index
send name from lib # name is subroutine in library lib
# include called subroutines
send n1 n2 from lib # send n1 and n2, plus called subs
send only name from lib # send only name, no called subs
send n1 but not n2 from lib # do not send n2 and routines called by it
send name from lib core # include core library
The netlib command can be part of the "Subject:" or part of the message.
Requests should be processed as fast as the ARPA net can handle them,
that is, 5 to 10 minutes. This should not be used to get entire libraries.
Consult Computer Committee if you need a complete library not in residence.
The following is the latest index from netlib:
From netlibd@anl-mcs.ARPA Fri Jan 24 15:53:31 1986
Subject: index
Caveat receptor. (Jack) dongarra@anl-mcs, (Eric Grosse) research!ehg
Compliments of netlib Fri Jan 24 15:43:39 CST 1986
I n d e x f o r N E T L I B
To examine the full index for any library send a request
to netlib of the form:
Send index from eispack
The default precision for the libraries will be double precision.
If you would like the single precision version of the package,
prefix the library name with an 's'. However, if the library
only comes in only one precision that's what you will be sent.
To search for somebody in Gene Golub's address list:
Who is Joan Doe?
displays entries containing "Joan" and "Doe". (no spelling correction!)
EISPACK A collection of Fortran subroutines that compute the eigenvalues
and eigenvectors of nine classes of matrices. The package can
determine the eigensystems of complex general, complex Hermitian,
real general, real symmetric, real symmetric band, real symmetric
tridiagonal, special real tridiagonal, generalized real, and
generalized real symmetric matrices. In addition, there are two
routines which use the singular value decomposition to solve
certain least squares problems.
Developed by the NATS Project at Argonne National Laboratory.
(d.p. refer to eispack, s.p. refer to seispack)
FMM Routines from the book Computer Methods for Mathematical
Computations, by Forsythe, Malcolm, and Moler.
Developed by George Forsythe, Mike Malcolm, and Cleve Moler.
(d.p. refer to fmm, s.p. refer to sfmm)
FNLIB Fullerton's special function library.
Developed by Wayne Fullerton.
(all precisions contained here)
LINPACK A collection of Fortran subroutines that analyze and solve linear
equations and linear least squares problems. The package solves
linear systems whose matrices are general, banded, symmetric
indefinite, symmetric positive definite, triangular, and tridiagonal
square. In addition, the package computes the QR and singular value
decompositions of rectangular matrices and applies them to least
squares problems.
Developed by Jack Dongarra, Jim Bunch, Cleve Moler and Pete Stewart.
(all precisions contained here)
MINPACK A package of Fortran programs for the solution of systems of
nonlinear equations and nonlinear least squares problems.
Five algorithmic paths each include a core subroutine and an
easy-to-use driver. The algorithms proceed either from an analytic
specification of the Jacobian matrix or directly from the problem
functions. The paths include facilities for systems of equations
with a banded Jacobian matrix, for least squares problems with a
large amount of data, and for checking the consistency of the
Jacobian matrix with the functions.
Developed by Jorge More', Burt Garbow, and Ken Hillstrom at
Argonne National Laboratory.
(d.p. refer to minpack, s.p. refer to sminpack)
FFTPACK A package of Fortran subprograms for the Fast Fourier
Transform of periodic and other symmetric sequences
This package consists of programs which perform Fast Fourier
Transforms for both complex and real periodic sequences and
certian other symmetric sequences.
Developed by Paul Swarztrauber, at NCAR.
FISHPACK A package of Fortran subprograms providing finite difference
approximations for elliptic boundary value problems.
Developed by Paul Swarztrauber and Roland Sweet.
QUADPACK A package for numerical computation of definite
one-dimensional integrals.
Developed by Piessens, Robert(Appl. Math. and Progr. Div.- K.U.Leuven)
de Donker, Elise(Appl. Math. and Progr. Div.- K.U.Leuven
Kahaner, David(National Bureau of Standards)
TOEPLITZ A package of Fortran subprograms for the solution of systems
of linear equations with coefficient matrices of Toeplitz or
circulant form, and for orthogonal factorization of column-
circulant matrices.
Developed by Burt Garbow at Argonne National Laboratory,
as a culmination of Soviet-American collaborative effort.
(d.p. refer to toeplitz, s.p. refer to stoeplitz)
GO Golden Oldies: routines that have been widely used,
but aren't available through the standard libraries.
Nominations welcome!
PPPACK Subroutines from: Carl de Boor, A Practical Guide to Splines,
Springer Verlag.
Caution. This is an old version, from around the time the book
was first published. We will install a newer version as soon
as we can.
ITPACK Iterative Linear System Solver based on a number of methods:
Jacobi method, SOR, SSOR with conjugate gradient acceleration
or with Chebyshev (semi-iteration - SI) acceleration.
Developed by Young and Kincaid and the group at U of Texas.
BIHAR Biharmonic solver in rectangular geometry
Biharmonic solver in polar coordinates
These routines were obtained from Petter Bjorstad,
Veritas Research, Oslo Norway in July 1984.
MISC Contains various pieces of software collected over time.
TOMS Collected algorithms of the ACM. When requesting a specific
item, please refer to be Algorithm number.
LASO A package computing a few eigenvalues of a large (sparse)
symmetric matrix.
Developed by David Scott University of Texas, Austin.
SCPACK contains routines to solve the "parameter problem"
associated with the Schwarz-Christoffel map (subroutine SCSOLV),
to evaluate the resulting S-C map (WSC), and to evaluate its inverse
(ZSC).
Developed by Llyod N. Trefethen, Courant Inst.
(d.p. refer to scpack, s.p. refer to sscpack)
FITPACK A package for splines under tension.
This is an early version of some fitpack routines.
For a current copy and for other routines, contact:
Alan Kaylor Cline
8603 Altus Cove, Austin, Texas 78759, USA
HARWELL Currently contains on the sparse matrix routine MA28 from the
Harwell library. contact:
Iain Duff
Computer Science & Systems Division
AERE Harwell
Didcot, Oxford OX11 ORA England
BENCHMARK contains various benchmark programs.
PORT ===== public subset of the PORT library =====
In general, contents of the PORT3 library are available by license.
CORE Machine constants, blas
MACHINES contains information on high performance computers that
are or soon to be made available
Y12M calculation of the solution of systems of linear systems of
linear algebra equations whose matrices are large and sparse.
authors: Zahari Zlatev, Jerzy Wasniewski and Kjeld Schaumburg
contact:
Prof. Zahari Zlatev
Computer Science Department
Mathematical Institute
University of Aarhus
Ny Munkegade
DK 8000 Aarhus C
PCHIP is a fortran package for piecewise cubic hermite inter-
polation of data. It features software to produce a monotone and
"visually pleasing" interpolant to monotone data. As is demon-
strated in reference 1, such an interpolant may be more reasonable
than a cubic spline if the data contains both "steep" and "flat"
sections. Interpolation of cumulative probability distribution
functions is another application.
Fred N. Fritsch
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LP Linear Programming - At present, this consists of one subdirectory,
data a set of test problems in MPS format.
For more information, try a request of the form
send index for lp/data
ODEPACK The ODE package from Alan Hindmarch and others.
This is the single precision verison to get dp refer to dodepack.
Alan Hindmarch
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
ELEFUNT is a collection of transportable Fortran programs for testing
the elementary function programs provided with Fortran compilers. The
programs are described in detail in the book "Software Manual for the
Elementary Functions" by W. J. Cody and W. Waite, Prentice Hall, 1980.
SPECFUN is an incomplete, but growing, collection of transportable
Fortran programs for special functions, and of accompanying test
programs similar in concept to those in ELEFUNT. Both single-
and double-precision versions can be extracted from the supplied
source code with simple editing changes. NOTE: at least one
version MUST be extracted before the source will compile.
W.J. Cody, Argonne National Laboratory
Coming soon:
SLATEC library
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