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+NIC 11122                                          Lawrence McDaniel
+NWG/RFC 382                                        Center for Advanced
+                                                     Computation
+                                                   University of Illinois
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+                                                   August 3, 1972
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+MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARE ON THE ARPA NETWORK
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+There have been several efforts in the past few years to develop high
+quality libraries of mathematical and statistical subroutines.  Some
+of the projects mentioned in the literature include:
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+1.  The Bell Laboratories numerical mathematics program library project.
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+2.  IMSL Inc.:  IMSL Library I, mathematical-statistical computer
+    subroutines
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+3.  The NATS (National Science Foundation,Argonne Laboratories, Stanford
+    and Texas) joint project on the Wilkinson linear algebra routines.
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+The ARPA Network could further enhance the desirability of such libraries
+as they would become another sharable network resource.  Although the
+diversity of network computing no doubt requires an equally diverse set
+of mathematical software, and in spite of the fact everyone has their
+own software hangups - not to mention hardware!, it seems everyone
+could benefit from some type of information interchange regarding mathe-
+matical software of interest.
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+In particular I would welcome any information on your experiences with
+mathematical and statistical libraries, especially regarding those
+mentioned above.
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+We do plan on obtaining the NATS library and with the project's cooperation,
+intend to make it available on several Network IBM/360-370's and PDP-10's.
+Those interested should send me a message via NIC (ident LM) or get in
+touch with me at (217) 333-8497.
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+       [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
+       [ into the online RFC archives by BBN Corp. under the   ]
+       [ direction of Alex McKenzie.                      1/97 ]
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