These executable routines illustrate several ways of packaging subroutines for solving linear systems of algebraic equations. Use is made of Lapack double precision codes.

In each case the user will be asked to enter a size for the dense matrix, A. The matrix elements are assigned [0,1] random values. A random [0,1] vector y is used to compute b = A*y. Then the system A*x = b is solved, which mathematically implies x=y. The relative error norm(x-y)/norm(y) and compute time is printed. The relative error should be small. The values of this error will vary depending on the system size and the compiler.

The following executable programs may be generated using the makefile provided

• libf77 uses exampleLapack77.f and the blas and lapack library files
• libf90 uses exampleLapack90.f90, set_precision.f90 and the blas and lapack library files
• exampleLapack77 uses exampleLapack77.f, LapackSrc.f BlasSrc.f
• exampleLapack90 uses exampleLapack90.f90, LapackSrc.f BlasSrc.f, set_precision.f90
• exampleLapackInterface uses exampleLapackInterface.f90, set_precision.f90 BlasInterface.f90 LapackInterface.f90 and the lapack and blas libraries.
• exampleLapackModules.f90 uses exampleLapackModules.f90, set_precision.f90 Background.f BlasModule.f90 LapackModule.f90

Sample output from libf77

Input the required dimension of the linear system :
500
The compute time for solving a system of size   500 is  0.1580E+00 seconds
The relative error  Y - inverse(A)*(A*Y) = 9.451529D-13
Input the required dimension of the linear system :
0

Sample output from libf90

Input the required dimension of the linear system : 500
The compute time for solving a system of size   500 is  0.1600D+00 seconds
The relative error  Y - inverse(A)*(A*Y) = 9.451529D-13
Input the required dimension of the linear system : 0