How to Search for LAPACK Routines
We collected some typical keywords which might help you finding the LAPACK
routine you need.
- data type
- matrix type
- general
- Hermitian
- symmetric
- diagonal
- triangular
- operation
- factorization
- solve
- inverse
- iteration
- results
- eigenvalues
- eigenvectors
- decomposition
The system we use for this search is very simple. We created a file containing
the information from the "whatis" database (whatis is a Unix command which
gives you a short description of commands). When you click on "Search
Now", we run a PERL cgi-bin script which looks through this file and returns
the names and descriptions of those routines which include all
keywords. Then the script creates the page showing the results and links the
routine names to the files containing the information from the manpages.
The disadvantage of this simple and relatively fast mechanism results from the
small amount of information we use for this search. If the description says,
computes the inverse and you search for
invert then the search would fail.
Back to the search engine.