BLAS Update

It appears GotoBLAS2 has been deprecated (i.e. orphaned). The new standard is OpenBLAS. OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version. OpenBLAS is an open source project supported by Lab of Parallel Software and Computational Science, Institute of Software Chinese Academy… Read more

Engineering Employment Links

Here are  links, with an emphasis on aerospace careers. Huntsville, Alabama http://www.huntsvillealabamausa.com/new_exp/crp/companies/alphabetical_list.html http://www.huntsvillespaceprofessionals.com/ http://nasajobs.nasa.gov/jobs/msfc.htm http://www.asmartplace.com/getsmart/work_findajob.html http://www.al.com/jobs/ Elsewhere http://www.usajobs.gov/ https://jobs-orbital.icims.com/jobs/intro?hashed=0 http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/pages/Careers.shtml http://www.aerojet.com/careers/ http://www.jhuapl.edu/employment/default.asp http://www.ata-engineering.com/careers http://www.spacex.com/careers.php http://www.blueorigin.com/careers/careers.html http://www.sdl.usu.edu/employment/ www.navyjobs.com http://www.aerospacetestingalliance.com/ Tom Irvine

Vibrationdata Newsletter

I have posted the January 2012 Newsletter at: http://www.vibrationdata.com/newsletters.htm The topics are: Slow Earthquakes Rumbler Siren Shepard Tones Toadfish Mating Call There are seven accompanying sound files and one Matlab script. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Tom Irvine

Solve a System of Linear Equations, Ax=B

Here is a Fortran program which solves a system of linear equations: LIN_EQ.F It is compiled via: gfortran -o LIN_EQ LIN_EQ.F -llapack The program uses the LAPACK subroutine: DGESV * * * A version written in C/C++ is given at:  linear_eq.cpp  It is compiled via: gcc… Read more

MPI

Introduction Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a portable library of subprograms which can be used to facilitate parallel computing. The MPI subprograms can be called from C and Fortran programs. Parallel Computing Parallel computing enables large scale numerical problems to be solved in a timely… Read more

GotoBLAS2

MinGW should be installed first. Next… GotoBLAS2 GotoBLAS2 is an implementation of Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS). LAPACK uses BLAS. GotoBLAS2 has configurations for a variety of hardware platforms. It builds a library that is optimized for the given PC’s CPU. Make a folder called:… Read more

Matrix Inversion in LAPACK

Here is a Fortran program which performs matrix inversion using the LU decomposition method:  INVERSE_MATRIX.F It is compiled via: gfortran -o INVERSE_MATRIX INVERSE_MATRIX.F -llapack It compiles & runs under both Ubuntu & Cygwin. See also: http://www.nag.com/numeric/fl/nagdoc_fl23/examples/source/f07ajfe.f90 * * * The INVERSE_MATRIX.F program uses the subroutines:… Read more

C/C++ Tips

Passing 1D array as function argument Example… // prototype function declaration void calc(double *x); double a[1000]; int main() { // call calc calc(a); } void calc(double *x) { // do some calculations } *************************************************************** Dynamic Memory Allocation for 1D Array int* a = NULL;     //… Read more

Mixed C++ Fortran Programming

This is another matrix multiplication project using the BLAS function dgemm. It is complied and run in an Ubuntu system. The set consists of two programs:  (right mouse click.  save target or link as) matrix_mult_cf.cpp fort_matmul_main.f The set calculates: C = A*B The C++ program… Read more