Portability of Numerical Software: Workshop, Oak Brook, Illinois, June 21–23, 1976

What is portability?....Pages 1-2
Some side effects of striving for portability....Pages 3-19
Machine characteristics and portability....Pages 20-21
Machine requirements for reliable, portable software....Pages 22-36
Semantics of floating point arithmetic and elementary functions....Pages 37-48
Machine parameters for numerical analysis....Pages 49-67
Preparing conventions for parameters for transportable numerical software....Pages 68-91
Programming languages and portability....Pages 92-94
Algol 68 as a language for numerical software....Pages 95-126
Writing the elementary function procedures for the ALGOL68C compiler....Pages 127-144
Criteria for transportable algol libraries....Pages 145-157
Fortran portability via models and tools....Pages 158-164
Port — A portable mathematical subroutine library....Pages 165-177
Fortran poisoning and antidotes....Pages 178-256
Two numerical analysts\' views on the draft proposed ans fortran....Pages 257-268
Intermediate languages: Current status....Pages 269-303
Computer-assisted portability....Pages 304-304
Mathematical software transportability systems have the variations a theme?....Pages 305-360
Features for fortran portability....Pages 361-367
The IMSL fortran converter: An approach to solving portability problems....Pages 368-388
Aids to portability within the NAG project....Pages 389-404
Multiple program realizations using the tampr system....Pages 405-423
Software design to facilitate portability....Pages 424-424
The production and testing of special function software in the NAG library....Pages 425-451
Portable special function routines....Pages 452-483
The importance of standardized interfaces for portable statistical software....Pages 484-503
Exploring the impact of portability....Pages 504-504
On the enhancement of portability within the NAG project — A statistical survey....Pages 505-528
A study of portability in technical and scientific computing....Pages 529-539