NETLIB is a network-based facility for the automated distribution of the
source code for public domain scientific software.  Most of this software is
written in FORTRAN, but some software is available in C, C++, and PASCAL.
Software is available for a wide variety of applications.  The following
list -- which is far from exhaustive -- should give the reader an idea of
the scope of the NETLIB collection.


NUMERICAL METHODS:

   * Linear Algebra (basic linear algebra subroutines, eigenvalue and
       eigenvector computations, matrix factorizations, least squares)
   * Sparse Matrix Calculations
   * Numerical Optimization
   * Spline Interpolation
   * Ordinary Differential Equations
   * Fast Fourier Transforms
   * Special Functions


WELL-KNOWN SOFTWARE:

   * Collected algorithms of the Association of Computing Machinery
       (ACM) Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)
   * LINPACK and EISPACK subroutine libraries
   * AMS TeX and SIAM typesetting macros
   * MATLAB applications packages


SOFTWARE FOR ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES:

   * Libraries for supporting parallel computation
   * Libraries for computation on vector-processor machines


MISCELLANEOUS:

   * Multiple-precision floating-point arithmetic packages (e.g.,
       Brents MP; Smiths FM, from TOMS algorithms)
   * Benchmark programs for comparing computing platforms
   * Collections of problems for testing numerical software
   * Programming aids such as single-precision-to-double-precision and
       FORTRAN-to-C conversion utilities
   * Companion software to various textbooks (e.g., Cheney & Kincaid;
       Forsythe, Malcolm, and Moler)
   * Bibliographies


Information and software (e.g., an index of available software, or the
source code to LINPACK) are obtained by sending requests -- via electronic
mail -- to a NETLIB mail server at one of the following Internet addresses:

     netlib@research.att.com          (AT&T Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA)
     netlib@ornl.gov                  (Oak Ridge Nat. Lab, Tenn., USA)
     netlib@ukc.ac.uk                 (Univ. of Kent, UK)
     netlib@nac.no                    (Oslo, Norway)
     netlib@draci.cs.uow.edu.au       (Univ. of Wollongong, NSW, Australia)

Upon receipt of an appropriately worded request, the NETLIB mail server
responds by sending the information or software requested to the electronic
mail address of the requestor.  Depending on your location, the amount of
network traffic, and other factors, you may actually receive a reply within
minutes of submitting your request!

Note that the software available and services provided may differ somewhat
>from one NETLIB site to another.  For example, the AT&T Bell Labs site,
research.att.com, also provides:  (1) access to the NETLIB software via FTP
(login with username netlib), and (2) access to an interactive biblio-
graphic search system via TELNET (login with username walk).

To obtain more detailed instructions on the use of NETLIB, as well as an
index of the software currently available from a particular NETLIB site,
send the following one-line message to a NETLIB mail server (selected from
the above list -- usually the geographically closest site):

     send index

Note that some mail trailers may possibly confuse the NETLIB mail servers.
If you encounter problems, you might want to suppress the use of your usual
signature file when sending requests to NETLIB via electronic mail.


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