The Distributed BLAS Project

This project is to develop a version of distributed BLAS, primarily for the Fujitsu AP series of multicomputers .
It has been released to the Fujitsu Parallel Computing Research Facilities . (FPCRF):
There are several papers related to the DBLAS available.

For the Third Edition, documentation includes Guide To Function (11 pages, 67 KB) and a User's Guide (14 pages, 72 KB). This edition has the following features: The source code and documentation for this release is available (compressed tar file, 200K), subject to some copyright conditions .

A draft paper (last updated Feb 17 1998 - includes LLT and AP+ results) for the performance comparison of the DBLAS with 1996 and 1997 versions of UTK PBLAS can be found here (9 pages, 86 KB). It is also available in slides form (10 pages, 112 KB)

Any questions or problems should be directed to Peter.Strazdins@cs.anu.edu.au. It would also be appreciated that any results or feedback of (successful) installations of the DBLAS be reported to the same address.