LFC is a software project that merges the ease of use of LAPACK with parallel processing capabilities of ScaLAPACK. The latter one's software dependences are reduced to an MPI implementation. It is a self-contained package with built-in knowledge of how to run linear algebra software on a cluster. BLAS may be supplied by the user for best performance but a decent replacement is provided.

LFC is for people who are familiar with LAPACK but need performance of ScaLAPACK and convenience of automated tuning of parallel computing resources.