scalapack ☆

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Description:
High-performance linear algebra for distributed memory machines

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: hpc linear-algebra scientific-computing parallel math

Install: brew install scalapack

About:
ScaLAPACK is a library of high-performance linear algebra routines for parallel distributed memory machines. It provides scalable implementations of dense linear algebra operations like matrix multiplication and solving linear systems. The library is a standard extension of LAPACK designed for supercomputing environments.

Key Features:

Distributed memory parallelism
Scalable dense linear algebra
BLACS-based communication
PBLAS interface

Use Cases:

Large-scale scientific simulations
High-performance computing applications
Computational physics and engineering

Alternatives:

PETSc – Focuses on solvers for PDEs rather than dense linear algebra
Trilinos – Broader framework including linear algebra and other solvers

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 11, 2025 6:29pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	a74db33e
Oct 3, 2023 12:31pm		1	VERSION_BUMP	24e2422c