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This page contains utilities and libraries developed for the Intel ASCI Option Red Supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The US Department of Energy (DOE) started an Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI), and the Intel supercomputer at Sandia is the first completed supercomputer for this program, and also the world's first general purpose supercomputer capable of doing more than a trillion floating point calculations a second. Take a look at some references for more information. Take a look at What's New on our webpage.

Concept

The ASCI project has 3 Intel Computational scientists. They have generated a number of utilities and single node libraries for the Intel Pentium Pro(TM) processors used on the ASCI Option Red machine at SNL. The utilities are built in a Unix-like environment in ELF format, and are therefore portable to most Linux-based Intel-inside workstations. These include things like the BLAS, FFTs, extended precision kernels, and hardware performance monitoring utilities. These come free of charge, and we only ask that you register your usage, give us your feedback, and pay close attention to the disclaimers.

Libraries

The following libraries are all for Intel Pentium Pro(TM) processor (single CPU) running on a Unix system like Linux.

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Disclaimers

Any performance data contained in these pages were obtained using specific hardware configuration and software design, and any changes in the configuration could impact the results of the data. We ask that anyone interested in downloading any utility in these pages to register it, and use a single copy per user per machine for their personal, non-commercial use unless prior written permission was obtained from this project. Multiple licenses may be obtained for a cluster of workstations at no charge, we simply ask that you register the correct number of licenses. We ask that nobody distribute these libraries, but encourage pointers and references to these pages.

These libraries and utilities are provided in Unix format by this project, but they should in no way be assumed to be "Intel official" libraries or utilities or be considered as a replacement for similar utilities found on web-sites sponsored by Intel.

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What's New

The following is a list of recent additions to these pages. The most recent changes are listed first.

March 24, 2000: Released BLAS Version 1.2F for the Intel Pentium II. Lookin for beta testers for BLAS 1.3 for Pentium IIIs, and fixed a problem in cop_dual discription. Also looking for performance monitoring beta testers and started shared library releases.

December 10, 1999: Released BLAS Version 1.2D for the Intel Pentium II.

November 15, 1999: Released BLAS Version 1.2B for the Intel Pentium II.

October 20, 1999: Released BLAS Version 1.2A for the Intel Pentium II.

August 27, 1999: Released BLAS Version 1.1O and released the Beta FFTs (soon to be updated!).

January 12, 1999: Fixed a beta=0 case when the input matrix had a NaN in the BLAS Version 1.1N.

November 16, 1998: Fixed a Solaris x86 linking bug in BLAS Version 1.1M.

November 6, 1998: Fixed a small zrotg bug in BLAS Version 1.1L. Changed the members page to reflect a change in the LLNL area code this past six months.

October 16, 1998: Fixed a small crotg bug in BLAS Version 1.1k

October 13, 1998: Made a Stack based version of the BLAS, and enhanced single precision routines in BLAS Version 1.1j

August 20, 1998: Tuned DGEMM, COPY routines, fixed a bug in ZGEMM in BLAS Version 1.1h

June 9, 1998: Added zrotg & crotg to BLAS Version 1.1e

June 1, 1998: Improved the BLAS with Version 1.1d and started the beta testing of the Pentium versions.

April 15, 1998: Improved the BLAS with Version 1.1c, and introduced the blasnews release notes to keep people up-to-date.

March 27, 1998: Observed that the extended precision library had omitted xprint__(), and so this was rebuilt.

March 25, 1998: Better extended precision documentation made

March 19, 1998: Pages introduced with BLAS 1.1a, and Extended Precision primitives 1.1.

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