How to understand the naming convention of lapack
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Fri Jun 19, 2015 1:27 amby ypsd09
For example, for dpotrf, I understand "d" is for double precision, "po" is for positive definitive. But what about 'trf'. Why not just called it chol for cholesky factorization?
Re: How to understand the naming convention of lapack
Posted:
Fri Jun 19, 2015 1:33 pmby CyLith
Refer to the naming conventions here:
http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lug/node24.htmlIn the case of DPOTRF, the TRF stands for TRiangular Factorization. There are also routines TRI and TRS for TRiangular Inverse and TRiangular Solve.