IMSL substitutes

[John D Mccalpin]

In article <9005082108.AA23342 at neumann> shaginaw at NEUMANN.SQUIBB.COM writes:
>
>     Your customer should try NETLIB, from Argonne National Labs (USA).
>To get an index of the software available by anonymous ftp, send mail
>to "netlib at mcs.anl.gov".  This mail will be read automatically, and so
>its contents must be precise; your message should read "send index".
>Most, but not all, of IMSL's routines have an equivalent in NETLIB.
>          Richard J. Shaginaw           Internet Address: shaginaw at squibb.com

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE --- Note that the address given above for netlib
is no longer valid.  It might work today, but it is scheduled to be shut off
any time now.

Netlib moved (following Jack Dongarra) several months ago to the University
of Tennessee at Knoxville.  The correct address for netlib is now

		netlib at ornl.gov

This is at Oak Ridge National Laboratories.

A minor point --- software is *NOT* available by anonymous ftp!
Software is sent to you by *return internet mail*.
There is another netlib setup on uucp at research.att.com.
I can't guarantee it, but I think that its uucp address is

		att!research!netlib.

Netlib is designed to provide *quick* availability to *small* pieces
of software - like individual routines from LINPACK, EISPACK, etc....
The developers/maintainers of netlib request that if you want the
*WHOLE* library, that you try to find someplace to purchase a tape
with the whole source.  I believe that IMSL sells a tape with the
LINPACK and EISPACK source (though I could be imagining this).

Netlib is a wonderful resource, and everyone doing numerical programming
should know about it!
-- 
John D. McCalpin                               mccalpin at vax1.udel.edu
Assistant Professor                            mccalpin at delocn.udel.edu
College of Marine Studies, U. Del.             mccalpin at scri1.scri.fsu.edu