12.3 References and Further Reading

Information on the blas standards, including both the legacy and updated interface standards, is available online from the blas Homepage and blas Technical Forum web-site.

• BLAS Homepage
  http://www.netlib.org/blas/
• BLAS Technical Forum
  http://www.netlib.org/blas/blast-forum/

The following papers contain the specifications for Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 blas.

• C. Lawson, R. Hanson, D. Kincaid, F. Krogh, “Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms for Fortran Usage”, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 5 (1979), Pages 308–325.
• J.J. Dongarra, J. DuCroz, S. Hammarling, R. Hanson, “An Extended Set of Fortran Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms”, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1988), Pages 1–32.
• J.J. Dongarra, I. Duff, J. DuCroz, S. Hammarling, “A Set of Level 3 Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms”, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 16 (1990), Pages 1–28.

Postscript versions of the latter two papers are available from http://www.netlib.org/blas/. A cblas wrapper for Fortran blas libraries is available from the same location.