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Computational Software Development with Windows HPC

The Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) at the University of Tennessee has been engaged in High-performance computing (HPC) research through the development of applications, scientific codes, and computational libraries that have helped form the fabric of HPC computing in the 21st century.

ICL is one of 10 university research centers worldwide selected as a Microsoft HPC Institute. In 2005, ICL received funding from Microsoft, Inc. and in 2006 received hardware and software resources for the establishment of an HPC Windows Compute Cluster.

The goal of the funded effort is to extend HPC applications, software and mathematical libraries to the Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster environment. To this end we hope to understand the requirements and opportunities for computational based research and innovation utilizing Windows high performance computing.

Here is a link to know more about the Microsoft HPC Institute - University of Tennessee

LAPACK Windows Installer

Requirement: none to run the GUI
Advised: Microsoft Visual Studio, Fortran Intel Compiler for Windows

install instructions : download and double-click!!

Install the full package LAPACK 3.1.1 (Reference BLAS included)[95 MB]

This installation will provide you:

• - an interface (GUI) for the LAPACK Examples provided by NAG
• - an interface (GUI) for the LAPACK testings
• - the LAPACK, BLAS, MATGEN, EXTRAS libraries in 4 favours: Win32/Release, Win32/Debug, x64/Release and x64/Debug
• - the complete Visual Solution to build the reference BLAS, LAPACK, the testings and the examples
(Be careful, the executables generated are used for the GUI, so don't break them!)

Notes:

• - the libraries were build using Microsoft Visual Studio and Intel Fortran Compiler
• - you do not need to rebuild the librairies or executables
• - the executables provided are the one from Win32/Release for the testings and Win32/Debug for the examples. They should work on any kind of Windows machine (hopefully!)

Feedback, suggestion for improvment and comments highly appreciated!
Release date: October 2007

Install / Build / Libraries

Requirement: Intel Compiler for Windows or PGI Compiler for Windows

We provide two types of install:

Nmake install using the Windows command prompt.

Please click here to get instrutions and source to install LAPACK or ScaLAPACK.

Visual Studio install with the Intel Fortran compiler

Please click here to get instructions and source to install LAPACK or ScaLAPACK.
Note, that there is no PGI Compiler Visual Studio right now.

Future of LAPACK for Windows

Demo

Watch a demo

Work in progress

Windows installer --> In a couple of click LAPACK will be install on your Windows machine.
	<-- GUI for NAG LAPACK examples An easy way to learn LAPACK from the NAG examples. The user will be able to browse the code, view and modify the input data and of course view the results.
GUI to run the LAPACK testings --> An easy way to run the testing suite of LAPACK. The user will be able to choose the Fortran compiler to use, to choose the BLAS librarie to run against and the LAPACK library also. The user will be able to view and modify the input data and of course view the results.
	<-- GUI for timing some major driver routines with different BLAS and LAPACK libraries

FAQ

Documentation

Support

• Forum : http://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack-forum/index.php
• Mailing List: lapack@cs.utk.edu or scalapack@cs.utk.edu

Acknowledgment

Yves Dolce from Microsoft.

Dennis Crain from Microsoft and Persistent Team, Pune