NIST SPARSE BLAS v. 0.9 (Sat Jul 6 14:27:21 EDT 1996)

What's included:

    The package includes support for the "BASIC" Toolkit, including
  matrix-multiply and triangular solve routines for the following
  sparse matrix formats:
  
            csr -  compressed sparse row
            csc -  compressed sparse column 
            coo -  coordinate 
            bsr -  block sparse row
            bsc -  block sparse column 
            bco -  block coordinate 
            vbr -  variable block row
          
What's  * NOT *included:

    The following is **NOT** included in this release:  
      --  support for triangular solves for the block coordinate (bco) scheme
      --  support for non-contiguous block storage in the block formats

What's required:

    Minimum:  ANSI C compiler
              12 MB Free disk space
    Optional: Fortran compiler (for testing fortran interfaces)
              AWK and SED (for re-generating kernel source code)
              
Testing:

    The testing directories contain both matrix-multiply and triangular
  solve testers for each supported storage scheme.  C and Fortran
  testers are both included, and can be used a examples for library usage. 

    This distribution has been tested under the following OS/compiler 
  configurations:

         sunos4.1.4:   gcc 2.7.0, gcc 2.7.2 and  acc 3.0.1
         sunsolaris2.4:gcc 2.7.0  (no RANLIB, see makefile.def)
         AIX.1.1:      xlc
         sgi-irix5.3:  gcc 2.7.0

Bug reports:

  Please send bug reports to kremington@nist.gov.