1The BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) are high quality "building block"
2routines for performing basic vector and matrix operations. Level 1 BLAS do
3vector-vector operations, Level 2 BLAS do matrix-vector operations, and Level
43 BLAS do matrix-matrix operations. Because the BLAS are efficient, portable,
5and widely available, they're commonly used in the development of high quality
6linear algebra software -- LINPACK and LAPACK, for example.
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8The original Fortran77 reference implementation of the BLAS is located in the
9blas directory of Netlib.  However, this port uses the updated sources
10distributed with LAPACK.
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