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The reference BLAS from Netlib (<TT><A NAME="tex2html2" HREF="www.netlib.org/blas">www.netlib.org/blas</A></TT>) are meant to define the standard behaviour of the BLAS interface, so they are not optimized for any particular plaftorm, and should only be used as a last resort. Note that BLAS computations form a relatively small part of the MLD2P4/PSBLAS computations; they are however critical when using preconditioners based on MUMPS, UMFPACK or SuperLU third party libraries. Note that UMFPACK requires a full LAPACK library; our experience is that configuring ATLAS for building full LAPACK does not work in the correct way. Our advice is first to download the LAPACK tarfile from <TT><A NAME="tex2html3" HREF="www.netlib.org/lapack">www.netlib.org/lapack</A></TT> and install it independently of ATLAS. In this case, you need to modify the OPTS and NOOPT definitions for including -fPIC compilation option in the make.inc file of the LAPACK library. </DD> <DT><STRONG>MPI</STRONG></DT> <DD>[<A HREF="node30.html#MPI2">16</A>,<A HREF="node30.html#MPI1">22</A>] A version of MPI is available on most high-performance computing systems. </DD> <DT><STRONG>PSBLAS</STRONG></DT> <DD>[<A HREF="node30.html#PSBLASGUIDE">13</A>,<A HREF="node30.html#psblas_00">15</A>] Parallel Sparse BLAS (PSBLAS) is available from <TT><A NAME="tex2html4" HREF="github.com/sfilippone/psblas3">github.com/sfilippone/psblas3</A></TT>; version 3.5.0 (or later) is required. Indeed, all the prerequisites listed so far are also prerequisites of PSBLAS. </DD> </DL><FONT SIZE="+1"><FONT SIZE="+1"><FONT SIZE="+1"> Please note that the four previous libraries must have Fortran interfaces compatible with MLD2P4; usually this means that they should all be built with the same compiler as MLD2P4. </FONT></FONT></FONT> <P> <FONT SIZE="+1"><FONT SIZE="+1"></FONT></FONT><HR> <!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html169" HREF="node8.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="next.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html165" HREF="node6.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="up.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html159" HREF="node6.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="prev.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html167" HREF="node2.html"> <IMG WIDTH="65" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="contents" SRC="contents.png"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html170" HREF="node8.html">Optional third party libraries</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html166" HREF="node6.html">Configuring and Building MLD2P4</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html160" HREF="node6.html">Configuring and Building MLD2P4</A> <B> <A NAME="tex2html168" HREF="node2.html">Contents</A></B> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> </BODY> </HTML>