blacs

Overview

The BLACS (Basic Linear Algebra Communication Subprograms) project is an ongoing investigation whose purpose is to create a linear algebra oriented message passing interface that may be implemented efficiently and uniformly across a large range of distributed memory platforms.

Version 1.1 is available

Restrictions on use

Free (not explicitly defined)

Set up procedure

Load the modulefile using one of the following commands, according to compiler, to set up your environment:

module add libs/gcc/blacs/1.1

Usage

The modulefile will add to LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS for use in your compilation process (e.g., in a Makefile) and LD_LIBRARY_PATH for use at run time. The LIB directory can be found under $BLACS_ROOT.

Further info

See the BLACS website.