New Release of LAPACK and ScaLAPACK planned.

We are pleased to announce that we recently received NSF funding for new releases of the LAPACK and ScaLAPACK linear algebra libraries. The proposal pointed out the new and better algorithms that have been developed by many people in the community since the first releases of these libraries, as well as more obvious gaps and possible improvements.

The proposal listed a large number of activities, which we now need to prioritize. There are a number of design decisions that still need to be made, for which we are interested in your input. For this purpose, we would like to remind you of a web page to collect your input that we originally announced on NA-Digest while we were preparing the proposal:

http://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack-survey.html

In addition to the questions on that form, we are interested in your opinion on all aspects of the proposal, a copy of which you may find at:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~demmel/Sca-LAPACK-Proposal.pdf

Thanks, Jim Demmel and Jack Dongarra --=20 Stephen Walton stephen.walton@csun.edu Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, CSU Northridge

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