This book
covers the following topics: Computers for which LAPACK is Suitable, LAPACK Compared with LINPACK and EISPACK, LAPACK and the BLAS, Availability of LAPACK, Commercial Use of LAPACK, Installation of LAPACK, Documentation for LAPACK, Support for LAPACK
and
Errata in LAPACK.
Author(s): E.
Anderson , Z. Bai , C. Bischof , L. S. Blackford , J. Demmel , J. Dongarra , J.
Du Croz , A. Greenbaum , S. Hammarling , A. McKenney and D. Sorensen
This note explains the following topics, Numerical linear algebra, nonlinear optimization, nonlinear least squares, introduction to floating point numbers and rounding error, examples from signal and image processing, control, machine learning.
This book is a technical reference to the floatingpoint environment supported on SPARCTM and x86 platforms running under the Solaris operating system. The book describes the FloatingPoint Environment, the representation and computation of floating point numbers and how the results of arithmetic operations are rounded. The Software and Hardware Support section describes how numerical operations are passed between the hardware and software of the system. The book should be indispensable to anyone seeking an understanding of how numerical computations are executed and optimized on Solaris systems. In particular, it will be an asset worth having in real life for developers and engineers working in the field of numerical algorithms within this particular environment of computing and offers a deep view into performance and accuracy considerations.