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Portability of Numerical Software

Workshop, Oak Brook, Illinois, June 21-23, 1976

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1977

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Editors:
  1. Wayne Cowell
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 57)

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Table of contents (29 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. What is portability?

    Pages 1-2

  3. Some side effects of striving for portability

    • Christian Reinsch
    Pages 3-19

  4. Machine characteristics and portability

    Pages 20-21

  5. Machine requirements for reliable, portable software

    • T. J. Dekker
    Pages 22-36

  6. Semantics of floating point arithmetic and elementary functions

    • T. E. Hull
    Pages 37-48

  7. Machine parameters for numerical analysis

    • W. J. Cody
    Pages 49-67

  8. Preparing conventions for parameters for transportable numerical software

    • B. Ford
    Pages 68-91

  9. Programming languages and portability

    Pages 92-94

  10. Algol 68 as a language for numerical software

    • L. M. Delves
    Pages 95-126

  11. Writing the elementary function procedures for the ALGOL68C compiler

    • P. Kemp
    Pages 127-144

  12. Criteria for transportable algol libraries

    • Pieter W. Hemker
    Pages 145-157

  13. Fortran portability via models and tools

    • W. S. Brown, A. D. Hall
    Pages 158-164

  14. Port — A portable mathematical subroutine library

    • P. A. Fox
    Pages 165-177

  15. Fortran poisoning and antidotes

    • Brian T. Smith
    Pages 178-256

  16. Two numerical analysts' views on the draft proposed ans fortran

    • C. L. Lawson, J. K. Reid
    Pages 257-268

  17. Intermediate languages: Current status

    • W. M. Waite
    Pages 269-303

  18. Computer-assisted portability

    Pages 304-304

  19. Mathematical software transportability systems have the variations a theme?

    • James M. Boyle
    Pages 305-360

  20. Features for fortran portability

    • Fred T. Krogh
    Pages 361-367
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Portability of Numerical Software

  • Book Subtitle: Workshop, Oak Brook, Illinois, June 21-23, 1976

  • Editors: Wayne Cowell

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-08446-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1977

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-08446-4Published: 01 October 1977

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-37071-0Published: 29 June 2005

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 542

  • Topics: Computer Science, general

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