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The PSBLAS library consists of various classes of subroutines:
<DL>
<DT><STRONG>Computational routines</STRONG></DT>
<DD>comprising:

<UL>
<LI>Sparse matrix by dense matrix product; 
</LI>
<LI>Sparse triangular
systems solution for block diagonal matrices;
</LI>
<LI>Vector and matrix norms;
</LI>
<LI>Dense matrix sums;
</LI>
<LI>Dot products.
</LI>
</UL> 
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>Communication routines</STRONG></DT>
<DD>handling halo and overlap
  communications;
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>Data management and auxiliary routines</STRONG></DT>
<DD>including:

<UL>
<LI>Parallel environment management
</LI>
<LI>Communication descriptors allocation;
</LI>
<LI>Dense and sparse matrix allocation;
</LI>
<LI>Dense and sparse matrix build and update;
</LI>
<LI>Sparse matrix and data distribution preprocessing.
</LI>
</UL> 
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>Preconditioner routines</STRONG></DT>
<DD>
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>Iterative methods</STRONG></DT>
<DD>a subset of Krylov subspace iterative
  methods
</DD>
</DL>
The following naming scheme has been adopted for all the symbols
internally defined in the PSBLAS software package:

<UL>
<LI>all the symbols (i.e. subroutine names, data types...) are
  prefixed by <code>psb_</code> 
</LI>
<LI>all the data type names are suffixed by <code>_type</code>
</LI>
<LI>all the constant values are suffixed by <code>_</code>
</LI>
<LI>all the subroutine names follow the rule <code>psb_xxname</code> where
  <code>xx</code> can be either:
  
<UL>
<LI><code>ge</code>: the routine is related to dense data, 
</LI>
<LI><code>sp</code>: the routine is related to sparse data, 
</LI>
<LI><code>cd</code>: the routine is related to communication descriptor
        (see&nbsp;<A HREF="node8.html#sec:datastruct">3</A>).
  
</LI>
</UL>
  For example the <code>psb_geins</code>, <code>psb_spins</code> and
  <code>psb_cdins</code> perform the same action (see&nbsp;<A HREF="node43.html#sec:toolsrout">6</A>) on
  dense matrices, sparse matrices and communication descriptors
  respectively.
  Interface overloading allows the usage of the same subroutine
  interfaces for both real and complex data.
</LI>
</UL>
In the description of the subroutines, arguments or argument entries
are classified as:
<DL>
<DT><STRONG>global</STRONG></DT>
<DD>For input arguments, the value must be the same on all processes
  participating in the subroutine call; for output arguments the value
  is guaranteed to be the same.
</DD>
<DT><STRONG>local</STRONG></DT>
<DD>Each process has its own value(s) independently.
</DD>
</DL>
To finish our general description, we define a version string with the
constant 
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whose current value is <code>3.0.0</code>

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