Oracle Developer Studio Performance Library routines can increase application performance on both serial and multiprocessor (MP) platforms, because the serial speed of many Performance Library routines has been increased, and many routines have been parallelized. Oracle Developer Studio Performance Library routines also have SPARC, AMD, and Intel specific optimizations that are not present in the base Netlib libraries.
Oracle Developer Studio Performance Library provides the following optimizations and extensions to the base Netlib libraries:
Extensions that support Fortran 95 and C language interfaces
Fortran 95 language features, including type independence and compile time checking
Consistent API across the different libraries in the Performance Library
Compatibility with LAPACK 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1.1, 3.3.1, 3.4.2 and 3.5.0 libraries
Increased performance, and in some cases, greater accuracy
Optimizations for specific SPARC and x86/x64 instruction set architectures
Support for 64-bit enabled Oracle Solaris and Linux operating environments
Support for parallel processing compiler options for SPARC and x86/x64 platforms
Support for multiple processor hardware options