Portability of Numerical Software

Workshop, Oak Brook, Illinois, June 21-23, 1976
Herausgegeben:Cowell, W.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is portability?.- Some side effects of striving for portability.- Machine characteristics and portability.- Machine requirements for reliable, portable software.- Semantics of floating point arithmetic and elementary functions.- Machine parameters for numerical analysis.- Preparing conventions for parameters for transportable numerical software.- Programming languages and portability.- Algol 68 as a language for numerical software.- Writing the elementary function procedures for the ALGOL68C compiler.- Criteria for transportable algol libraries.- Fortran portability via models and tools.- Port ¿ A portable mathematical subroutine library.- Fortran poisoning and antidotes.- Two numerical analysts' views on the draft proposed ans fortran.- Intermediate languages: Current status.- Computer-assisted portability.- Mathematical software transportability systems have the variations a theme?.- Features for fortran portability.- The IMSL fortran converter: An approach to solving portability problems.- Aids to portability within the NAG project.- Multiple program realizations using the tampr system.- Software design to facilitate portability.- The production and testing of special function software in the NAG library.- Portable special function routines.- The importance of standardized interfaces for portable statistical software.- Exploring the impact of portability.- On the enhancement of portability within the NAG project ¿ A statistical survey.- A study of portability in technical and scientific computing.

Produktdetails

• Lecture Notes in Computer Science 57
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-08446-4
• 1977.
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1977
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 767g
• ISBN-13: 9783540084464
• ISBN-10: 3540084460
• Artikelnr.: 23110684

Inhaltsangabe

What is portability?.- Some side effects of striving for portability.- Machine characteristics and portability.- Machine requirements for reliable, portable software.- Semantics of floating point arithmetic and elementary functions.- Machine parameters for numerical analysis.- Preparing conventions for parameters for transportable numerical software.- Programming languages and portability.- Algol 68 as a language for numerical software.- Writing the elementary function procedures for the ALGOL68C compiler.- Criteria for transportable algol libraries.- Fortran portability via models and tools.- Port - A portable mathematical subroutine library.- Fortran poisoning and antidotes.- Two numerical analysts' views on the draft proposed ans fortran.- Intermediate languages: Current status.- Computer-assisted portability.- Mathematical software transportability systems have the variations a theme?.- Features for fortran portability.- The IMSL fortran converter: An approach to solving portability problems.- Aids to portability within the NAG project.- Multiple program realizations using the tampr system.- Software design to facilitate portability.- The production and testing of special function software in the NAG library.- Portable special function routines.- The importance of standardized interfaces for portable statistical software.- Exploring the impact of portability.- On the enhancement of portability within the NAG project - A statistical survey.- A study of portability in technical and scientific computing.