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BLAS

The BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) are routines that provide standard building blocks for performing basic vector and matrix operations. The Level 1 BLAS perform scalar, vector and vector-vector operations, the Level 2 BLAS perform matrix-vector operations, and the Level 3 BLAS perform matrix-matrix operations. Because the BLAS are efficient, portable, and widely available, they are commonly used in the development of high quality linear algebra software, LAPACK for example.

Two BLAS and LAPACK implementations are available on Stanage:

• OpenBLAS

• Intel MKL

Direct dependencies for latest version of BLAST+

• Boost/1.79.0-GCC-11.3.0

• bzip2/1.0.8-GCCcore-11.3.0

• GMP/6.2.1-GCCcore-11.3.0

• gompi/2022a

• libjpeg-turbo/2.1.3-GCCcore-11.3.0

• libpng/1.6.37-GCCcore-11.3.0

• LMDB/0.9.29-GCCcore-11.3.0

• PCRE/8.45-GCCcore-11.3.0

• zlib/1.2.12-GCCcore-11.3.0