NIC 11122 Lawrence McDaniel
NWG/RFC 382 Center for Advanced
Computation
University of Illinois
August 3, 1972
- MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARE ON THE ARPA NETWORK
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- There have been several efforts in the past few years to develop high
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- quality libraries of mathematical and statistical subroutines. Some
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- of the projects mentioned in the literature include:
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- 1. The Bell Laboratories numerical mathematics program library project.
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- 2. IMSL Inc.: IMSL Library I, mathematical-statistical computer
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subroutines
- 3. The NATS (National Science Foundation,Argonne Laboratories, Stanford
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and Texas) joint project on the Wilkinson linear algebra routines.
- The ARPA Network could further enhance the desirability of such libraries
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- as they would become another sharable network resource. Although the
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- diversity of network computing no doubt requires an equally diverse set
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- of mathematical software, and in spite of the fact everyone has their
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- own software hangups - not to mention hardware!, it seems everyone
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- could benefit from some type of information interchange regarding mathe-
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- matical software of interest.
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- In particular I would welcome any information on your experiences with
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- mathematical and statistical libraries, especially regarding those
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- mentioned above.
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- We do plan on obtaining the NATS library and with the project's cooperation,
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- intend to make it available on several Network IBM/360-370's and PDP-10's.
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- Those interested should send me a message via NIC (ident LM) or get in
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- touch with me at (217) 333-8497.
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