Peter Benner, Enrique S. Quintana-Orti and Gregorio Quintana-Orti

NICONET Report 1999-1: January 1999.

This paper describes the design of a software library for solving the basic computational problems that arise in analysis and synthesis of linear control systems. The library is intended for use in high performance computing environments based on parallel distributed memory architectures. The portability of the library is ensured by using the BLACS, PBLAS, and ScaLAPACK as the basic layer of communication and computational routines. Preliminary numerical results demonstrate the performance of the developed codes on parallel computers. The suggested library can serve as a basic layer for PSLICOT, a parallel extension of the Subroutine Library in Control Theory (SLICOT).