Lapack seems to be the topic of the week, and I thought I might try to
follow it more closely by actually having it.

Lapack has a wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAPACK
, which doesn't have a very fortran flavor.

Lapack95 has a web presence but is largely unfinished:
http://www.netlib.org/lapack95/
The FAQ and release notes say "still building."

I was hoping to find something appropriate for poor people on windows and
found:
http://www.netlib.org/lapack95/
This claims that MS Visual studio or a PGI compiler are prereq's. Frankly,
the information here is somewhat crossed as well. (I have MS Visual Studio
through '98 but the bandwagon left me behind with the dot net framework.)

The sum of the parts is that there seems to be incomplete and somewhat
contradictory information out there on how to get Lapack working. I wish I
could afford Intel to take the guesswork right out of it, but alas, I've
survived two terms of Bush.

Ron Ford wrote:

Did you consider the non-commercial license for Intel Fortran on linux,
or the 4.5 month free beta version
http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/Community/en-US/forums/thread/30262610.as...
?

In article ,
Ron Ford writes:

http://www.netlib.org/lapack/

Note the conspicuous lack of 95 in the URL.

Steven G. Kargl wrote:
(snip)

VAX running Berkeley Unix, VMS, Linux, NetBSD, ...,?

As I understand it, FreeBSD and NetBSD are based on Berkeley
unix with all AT&T code replaced. If so, is it still unix?

-- glen

In article comcast.com>,
glen herrmannsfeldt ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:

Your understanding is incorrect, only certain files were removed.
Here's an interesting read.

Steven G. Kargl wrote:
(snip, I wrote)

I suppose then no-one really knows. Except for the last
six files, it was done by so many people, it is hard to say
that there wasn't any cheating going on.

It seems to me that they were at least legally replaced,
if not physically replaced. Testing code for
copyright infringement isn't easy, though. If I find

I=I+1

in two Fortran programs, that isn't much of an indicator
that one was copied from the other. It might not be
hard to write a program that would rearrange the code,
change variable names, and otherwise obscure the
original source. (Not the goal of most obfuscators.)

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:59:17 -0700, Richard Maine posted:

My sysadmin buddy tells me that linux is one of the unices. To see him hop
around on my solaris and ubuntu partitions is to see a virtuoso.

I think what I see in both places is that everything is in a folder.
There's lapack/testing/eig on all these systems, after you "untar" them,
untarring being the kiss of death for a windows install.