1All users of the BLACS should read "A User's Guide to the BLACS v1.1". 2Users may also be interested in the quick reference guides for the C and 3Fortran77 interfaces to the BLACS. 4 5Before you can compile anything, you must first edit and correct the file 6BLACS/Bmake.inc. Sample Bmake.inc's can be found in the BLACS/BMAKES 7directories. See the paper "Installing and Testing the BLACS" for details. 8 9Users of the MPIBLACS should also read the two small notes on the BLACS 10and their interaction with MPI: "Outstanding Issues in the MPIBLACS", 11and "Some Plebian Extensions to MPI". 12 13All of these papers are available in the blacs/ directory on netlib. 14If you possess mosaic, these papers may be downloaded by accessing 15URL = http://www.netlib.org/blacs/Blacs.html. This is the BLACS 16homepage, and provides documentation and troubleshooting. 17 18Downloading by anonymous ftp can be accomplished by 19"ftp ftp.netlib.org" directory "blacs/". 20 21To download the files via netlib's e-mail option, type 22"mail netlib@www.netlib.org", and in the body of the message type 23"send FILE from blacs". 24 25More details on downloading are available in the paper 26"Installing and Testing the BLACS", whose filename on netlib is 27"blacs_install.ps". 28 29If you have questions or comments that are not addressed by these papers 30or the BLACS homepage, send e-mail to blacs@cs.utk.edu. 31