LAPACK and ScaLAPACK Survey Results - by response

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Response #1: 2005-08-14

General

1. Is dense linear algebra a performance bottleneck in your applications?
Yes

2. How often do your applications use the arithmetic precisions listed below:

a. Single precision: Sometimes
b. Double precision: Very Frequently
c. More than double precision: Never
d. Complex single precision: Rarely
e. Complex double precision: Rarely
f. Complex, more than double precision: Never

3. What dense matrix sizes are most important or time-consuming for your application?
10,000s X 1,000s

4. Does your application come close to, or run out of memory on important problems?
Yes

5. Number of processors used for your application:

a. SMP: Less than 10
b. Distributed shared-memory: Less than 10
c. Distributed memory: More than 100

6. Which architectures do you use or intend to use in the next three years?
Multi-core-thread, Distributed-memory, Widely-distributed

7. Do you use any other sequential or parallel dense linear algebra packages other than LAPACK or ScaLAPACK?
Lee Samuel Finn

8. Please rank how the following features would be useful to your current or planned applications?

a. User defined matrix types: Somewhat useful
b. Using optional arguments in the language interface: Somewhat useful
c. Automatic memory allocation of the work space: Very useful
d. More complicated matrix data structures: Very useful

9. Do your applications solve linear algebra problems of the type?
Linear positive definite systems, Banded linear systems, Symmetric eigenvalue, SVDs

LAPACK Usage

1. Do you use LAPACK (or a vendor version of LAPACK )?
Yes

4. If you use LAPACK, do you use a vendors version or one obtained directly from Netlib?
Vendor

6. Do your applications make direct LAPACK calls?
No

7. Do your applications use libraries which depend on LAPACK?
Yes

8. Do your applications use a higher-level interface to LAPACK?
Yes

9. If you answered yes above, which higher-level interfaces do you use?
matlab

10. Is the LAPACK procedure interface a barrier to more extensive use?
No

11. From which languages do you call LAPACK routines?
C, C++, Matlab

15. How frequently do you refer to the LAPACK Users Guide?
Rarely

ScaLAPACK Usage

1. Do you use ScaLAPACK (or a vendor version of ScaLAPACK )?
No

15. How frequently do you refer to the ScaLAPACK Users Guide?

Targeted Environment Specifics

1. Under which operating system environments do your applications run?
Linux, Mac OS X


Additional Information

5.Description of related activities
Time series data analysis; deconvolution
6.Additional Comments/Suggestions
Re ScaLAPACK: while I am not now using it my need for the functionality it provides has risen sharply in the last several months and I expect I will be diving in to it soon. I expect to use it via a matlab interface and will need to locate a suitable interface or roll my own.








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