Re: Bug#522017: ITP: jblas -- jblas is a fast linear algebra library for Java

[Chris Walker <chrisw@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Soeren Sonnenburg <sonne@debian.org> writes:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Soeren Sonnenburg <sonne@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : jblas

This package seems likely to be of interest to debian-science, so I'm
sending this mail there too. 

It would presumably fit into the mathematics-dev task.

And here is the rest of the description for debian-science readers. 

>   Version         : 0.1
>   Upstream Author : Mikio Braun mikio<AT>cs.tu-berlin.de
> * URL             : https://ml01.zrz.tu-berlin.de/trac/jblas/
> * License         : BSD
>   Programming Lang: Java
>   Description     : jblas is a fast linear algebra library for Java
> 
>   jblas is a fast linear algebra library for Java. jblas is based on
>   BLAS and LAPACK, the de-facto industry standard for matrix
>   computations, and uses state-of-the-art implementations like ATLAS for
>   all its computational routines, making jBLAS very fast. 
> 
>   jblas can is essentially a light-wight wrapper around the BLAS and
>   LAPACK routines. These packages have originated in the Fortran
>   community which explains their archaic API. On the other hand modern
>   implementations are hard to beat performance wise. jblas aims to make
>   this functionality available to Java programmers such that they do not
>   have to worry about writing JNI interfaces and calling conventions of
>   Fortran code.
> 


Chris