A proposal for an extended set of Fortran Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms
Jack J. Dongarra, Jeremy Du Croz, Sven J. Hammarling, Richard J. Hanson · ACM SIGNUM Newsletter · 1985
This paper describes an extension to the set of Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms. The extensions proposed are targeted at matrix vector operations which should provide for more efficient and portable implementations of algorithms for high performance computers.