An extended set of FORTRAN basic linear algebra subprograms

@article{Dongarra1988AnES,
  title={An extended set of FORTRAN basic linear algebra subprograms},
  author={Jack J. Dongarra and Jeremy Du Croz and Sven Hammarling and Richard J. Hanson},
  journal={ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)},
  year={1988},
  volume={14},
  pages={1 - 17},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:3579623}
}
This paper describes an extension to the set of Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms. The extensions are targeted at matrix-vector operations that should provide for efficient and portableโ€ฆ
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