This working note describes how to install, test, and time version 3.0 of LAPACK, a linear algebra package for high-performance computers. Separate instructions are provided for the Unix and non-Unix versions of the test package. Further details are also given on the design of the test and timing programs. 1This work was supported by NSF Grant No. ASC-8715728. formerly Susan Ostrouchov

Relatively little is known about how the life histories of perennial forb species, and especially their lifetime patterns of growth, vary across environmental gradients. We used a post hoc approach (herb-chronology) to determine plant age and previous growth (width of successive annual rings in roots) in three species of perennial forb (two long-lived species [Penstemon venustus, Lupinus laxifl...

When I learned that Susan Lindquist had passed away at the age of 67 from cancer, my heart broke. This fierce flame for science and for women had been extinguished, and for a moment the world became a little dimmer. I first met Susan Lindquist in 1994 when I was a postdoc interviewing for a faculty position at the University of Chicago. Wemet for breakfast at a local diner.We talked about our s...