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:

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

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

5. Number of processors used for your application:

6. Which architectures do you use or intend to use in the next three years?
Multi-core-thread, Symmetric-multi-procs, Distributed-memory, Hybrid-shared

7. Do you use any other sequential or parallel dense linear algebra packages other than LAPACK or ScaLAPACK?
BNCpack, MPIBNCpack

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

9. Do your applications solve linear algebra problems of the type?
General linear systems, Non-symmetric eigenvalue

LAPACK Usage

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

2. If you do not use LAPACK, why?
Use another pkg

6. Do your applications make direct LAPACK calls?
No

7. Do your applications use libraries which depend on LAPACK?
No

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?
Scilab

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

11. From which languages do you call LAPACK routines?
C, Fortran 77, Scilab

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

ScaLAPACK Usage

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

2. If you do not use ScaLAPACK, why?
Use another pkg

3. If using another package, which one(s)?
MPIBNCpack

6. Do your applications make direct ScaLAPACK calls?
No

7. Do your applications use libraries which depend on ScaLAPACK?
No

8. Do your applications use a higher-level interface to ScaLAPACK?
No

10. Is the ScaLAPACK procedure interface a barrier to more extensive use?
Yes

11. From which languages do you call ScaLAPACK routines?
C

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

Targeted Environment Specifics

1. Under which operating system environments do your applications run?
Linux, Windows (other)

2. If your applications run in a shared-memory environment, which styles of parallelism do they employ?
Platform threading

3. If your applications run in a distributed-memory environment, which styles of parallelism do they employ?
Message passing

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