1 The BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) are high quality "building
2 block" routines for performing basic vector and matrix
3 operations. Level 1 BLAS do vector-vector operations, Level 2 BLAS do
4 matrix-vector operations, and Level 3 BLAS do matrix-matrix
5 operations. Because the BLAS are efficient, portable, and widely
6 available, they're commonly used in the development of high quality
7 linear algebra software, LINPACK and LAPACK for example.
9 This package contains the Fortran 77 reference implementation of BLAS.