8.6.0. BLAS: Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines
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This is a full interface to the popular BLAS library (written in
FORTRAN). Most functions have a single precision and a double precision
form for real and complex numbers. A complex number is represented in
Lush as an -idx1- with two elements.
8.6.0.0. Requirements/Installation
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Most GNU/Linux distributions include BLAS as part of the
lapcak , liblapack or
liblapack-devel packages (e.g. lapack-3.0-14.i386.rpm on
RedHat 7.3 or liblapack3-3.0-4mdk.i586.rpm and
liblapack3-devel-3.0-4mdk.i586.rpm on Mandrake 7.2). Those packages are
not generally installed by default and will probably have to be
installed manually from RPMs or APT.
If you are on a system without a BLAS/LAPACK package, you can download
the FORTRAN source code from http://www.netlib.org/lapack and install
the resulting library (e.g. blas_LINUX.a) in /usr/local/lib. If you put
blas_XXX.a in a non-standard location, you must tell Lush where you put
it by doing:
(defparameter blas-libblas "yourblaslibrary.a")
before loading any of the BLAS files into Lush.