Re: multiple precision version of BLAS and LAPACK

[Maho NAKATA]

Hello Jaroslav Hajek,

Many thanks for your kind reply. I'll look at it and maybe the
start from here looks very nice.

Best,

From: Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: multiple precision version of BLAS and LAPACK
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:52:26 +0200

> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Maho NAKATA <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi developers of octave,
>> my name is Nakata Maho, Japanese, who is interested in Octave.
>> Thanks for good software!
>>
>> Just my interest, I have been developing multiple precision version
>> of BLAS and LAPACK, using qd/dd/gmp [1]. I have a principal developer of
>> SDPA-GMP [2], semidefinite programming solver using GMP. Actually,
>> MPACK, multiple precision arithmetic version of BLAS and LAPACK I have
>> developing is from the SDPA-GMP.
>>
>> I wonder what I can contribute to octave. Any advice is really appreciated.
>>
>> [1] http://mplapack.sourceforge.net/
>> [2] http://sdpa.indsys.chuo-u.ac.jp/sdpa/download.html
>>
>> Best,
>> -- Nakata Maho http://accc.riken.jp/maho/ , http://ja.openoffice.org/
>>   Nakata Maho's PGP public keys: http://accc.riken.jp/maho/maho.pgp.txt
>>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Octave can conveniently be extended using external C++ packages. If
> you'd like to contribute a multi-precision package, probably the best
> way to start is to check out David Bateman's fixed point numbers
> package:
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/fixed/
> I don't think we want multiprecision computing in Octave's core now,
> but that may change in the future.
> 
> 
> hth
> 
> --
> RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
> computing expert & GNU Octave developer
> Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
> Prague, Czech Republic
> url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz
>

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