Newsgroups: comp.lang.apl
Path: watmath!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!torn!csd.unb.ca!UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA
From: WRK0000 <WRK0@UNB.CA>
Subject: QUAD-NA AND ESSL
Message-ID: <16AUG92.12942926.0032@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA>
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Organization: The University of New Brunswick
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 15:59:03 GMT


> These guys have a 3090, and they should use ESSL, which is
> provided by IBM.  ....  it is probably the only commercial package
> which is as good or better than LINPACK/EISPACK/LAPACK.  ESSL has
> the world's _best_ FFT's bar none.  ....  Last time I used it, IBM
> had gone to the trouble to write the required interface for all of
> ESSL routines to quad-NA.
> .... Andrew Mullhaupt

Sounds wonderful, but I pity ye if ye ever have to make that
interface actually work unless you are an 3090 wizard.

  Bill Knight

