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• Linear Algebra
• PyMat, a matrix package for the Python programming language.
• JAMA, an elementary linear algebra package for Java.
• MTL, the Matrix Template Library. Dense and sparse matrices and vectors; banded, symmetric, triangular matrices; basic algorithms. C++.
• uBLAS, BLAS in C++ with expression templates.
• tvmet, a C++ library for "tiny" vectors and matrices with expression templates.
• GMM++, generic C++ template library for sparse, dense and skyline matrices, with solvers from ITL.
• dnAnalytics, C# numerics library, linear algebra, BLAS interface.
• MET, a C++ matrix library with expression templates, which eliminates the overhead of overloaded operators.
• SL++, the Scientific Library project. Will provide matrices, random numbers, complex, quaternions, plotting, and FFTs. C++.
• Seldon, C++ library for linear algebra with BLAS interface. Many matrix types (sparse, symmetric, hermitian, etc.) are supported.
• ALP, linear and polynomial algebra. Vectors, matrices, polynomials.
• SVMT: E. Robert Tisdale's proposal for a standard C++ Scalar, Vector, Matrix and Tensor Class Library (with implementation). Note: this is a proposal, not an official standard.
• GNUSSL [ftp only], the GNU Scientific Software Library. Linear algebra and arrays. C++.
• CPPLapack, C++ wrapper for BLAS and LAPACK.
• Lapack++, C++ wrapper for BLAS and LAPACK.
• IML++ A C++ template library for numerical iterative methods.
• MV++ Numerical Matrix/Vector Classes in C++
• SparseLib++ A library for sparse matrix computations, including the Sparse BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms). C++.
• ISIS++, an object-oriented framework for solving sparse linear systems of equations. C++.
• ARPACK++, a C++ template library for solving large-scale standard and generalized eigenvalue problems.
• The Template Numerical Toolkit (TNT) for linear algebra is a successor to the Lapack++, Sparselib++, IML++, and MV++ packages. Its goal is to integrate these ideas into a generic algorithmic library, supporting generic user-defined data types, and increasing its functionality. C++.
• LinAlg, basic linear algebra and optimization classes. C++.
• CAM C++ Class Library (Matrix, vector, and graphics classes)
• Newmat, a C++ matrix library (docs, download)
• CLHEP includes matrix classes, random number generators for the High Energy Physics (HEP) community. C++.
• BPKIT, Block Preconditioning Toolkit for iterative solution of linear systems. Callable from C++, C, or FORTRAN.
• Arrays and Images
• FreePOOMA framework for scientific computing on sequential and parallel computers. C++.
• The Blitz++ class library: Array and Vector classes which rival Fortran's performance. C++.
• The AIPS++ Array and Image Classes (Astronomical Information Processing System). C++.
• Daixtrose, a general-purpose expression template engine.
• PETE, an expression templates library -- add expression templates to your own array class.
• SCTL (BlueSail), C++, arrays, matrics, vectors, sparse, rotations.
• NumPy, Numerical extensions to Python.
• VIGRA, generic computer vision/image processing library.
• CPPIMA A C++ image processing library
• LIMP, Large Image Manipulation Program
• Image Restoration and Inpainting, C++ library for image restoration.
• valarray<Troy> [ftp only], approximation of the valarray<T> class described in Ch. 26 of the ANSI/ISO C++ Standard. Uses expression templates for efficient evaluation.
• Image Understanding Environment (IUE), a DARPA project. C++.
• WAILI, a wavelet transform library in C++.
• Neural Networks, genetic algorithms, machine learning, data mining
• PDP++, a neural-network simulation system written in C++
• EO -- Evolutionary Computation Framework
• CONICAL, C++ classes for building Neural Networks
• GALib, a C++ library for genetic algorithms
• Xelopes data mining library (Java, C++, C#)
• MLC++, Machine learning algorithms and data mining.
• High-Energy Physics and Quantum Chemistry
• QC++, quantum chemistry software in C++, supporting MNDO, AM1 and PM3 models.
• FTensor, C++ class library for tensors.
• GluCat, Clifford algebra template library.
• Computational Thermodynamics Library
• Tech-X has made available C++ libraries related to particle accelerator design.
• Multiprecision, arbitrary precision data types
• NTL, arbitrary length integers, vectors/matrices/polynomials over integers and over finite fields.
• EXTNUM, version of double which has the same number of mantissa bits as IEEE 754, but extends the exponent to have range from 10^^-646456993 to 10^^646456992.
• CLN, an extensive number library. Arbitrary precision integer, float, rational, polynomials, complex, modular integers, transcendental functions, assembly language kernels for some CPUs.
• MUNTL, Multiprecision unsigned number template library (C++).
• MPFUN++, a multiple precision floating point computation package in C++.
• LiDIA, A library for computational number theory. Provides a collection of highly optimized implementations of various multiprecision data types and time-intensive algorithms.
• Apfloat, a C++ High Performance Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic Package
• hfloat, An arbitrary precision package, optimized for very large (> 1000) (decimal) digit numbers.
• fPoint, a C++ class which helps convert floating-point arithmetic to fixed-point arithmetic by recommending range and precision requirements.
• doubledouble, a quad-precision (approximately 30 decimal place) floating point arithmetic class.
• Differential Equations
• Rheoolef, finite element environment in C++.
• EXPDE, a C++ library for solving partial differential equations on semi-unstructured grids. Parallel.
• PZ, a C++ library for finite elements. 1-3 dimensions with hp-adaptivity, continuous or discontinuous, variety of matrix formats.
• MBDyn, multibody dynamics analysis in C++. Built-in parallelization via MPI/Metis.
• P2MESH, 2D finite volume/finite elements, C++ library designed for fast prototyping of high-performance PDE solvers.
• Femlisp, a Common Lisp framework for Finite Element Methods.
• GETFEM++, a C++ finite element library, generic, arbitrary dimensions.
• MOUSE, a C++ library for finite volume computations on unstructured grids.
• DEAL, a C++ library for adaptive finite elements and error estimation. Supports SMPs.
• ODE++, a class library for ordinary differential equations. Explicit and linear-implicit ODE systems, IVP and BVP parameters, various solvers (Runge-Kutta, multistep, BDF). [English] [Deutsch]
• PETSc, object-oriented software for partial differential equations (programmed in C)
• Diffpack, partial differential equations in C++. ($)
• TIDE: Classes for Ordinary Differential Equations. Provides vectors and matrices, extrapolation integrator for ODEs, sparse matrix classes, eigenvalues, shooting for two point BVPs, nonlinear solver, continuation
• BoxLib/CCSE Applications Suite (docs), a class library supporting adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) schemes for computational fluid dynamics.
• OVERTURE, a C++ class library for solving PDEs in complicated domains. Includes adaptive mesh refinement and overlapping grids.
• FEMLIB (ftp, www) A Finite Element package [ftp only] by Michael Tiller (BROKEN LINK, no longer supported)
• Automatic differentiation and interval arithmetic
• Gaol, C++ library for interval arithmetic. Includes methods for interval constraint solvers.
• FADBAD-TADIFF, a C++ package for automatic differentiation using any arithmetic (double or interval) by operator overloading.
• PROFIL/BIAS [English] [Deutsch], a C++ interval arithmetic class library.
• Visualization
• The Visualization Toolkit (vtk), an extensive, free C++ library for scientific visualization.
• VisAD, a Java library for interactive and collaborative visualization and analysis of numerical data
• Java 2D Graph package. Includes contour plots, animation.
• Ptplot, a 2D data plotter in Java
• Graph Theory/Combinatorics
• Boost Graph Library, a general purpose, generic C++ library for graph data structures and graph algorithms.
• GTL, the Graph Template Library (C++).
• LEDA, a C++ library for graph theory and combinatorial computing.
• Language interoperability/scripting
• CPPF77 (cppf77.zip), a utility for interfacing C++ and Fortran 77 programs.
• Paul Dubois's code for interfacing Python and C++
• SWIG, generates Perl, Python, Tcl, Java, Eiffel and Guile wrappers for C++ libraries.
• SILOON (Scripting Interface Languages for Object-Oriented Numerics), toolkits and run-time support for building scripting interfaces to existing numerical codes in C, C++, and Fortran. Generates script bindings for Perl, Tcl, and Python.
• Matwrap, a tool which generates C++ wrapper code for matrix-oriented scripting languages such as Matlab 5, Octave, and tela.
• Transforms
• FFTPACK++, a C++ wrapper for FFTPACK complex routines using LAPACK++ Matrix and Vector classes.
• The FXT library of transforms. FFTs, Hartley, Number theoretic, Walsh, others coded in C++.
• Optimization
• COOOL, an object-oriented optimization library
• OptSolve++, a C++ optimization library from Tech-X. (commercial)
• StarFLIP, optimization library for combinatorial problems with fuzzy constraints (C++)
• LM (Levenberg-Marquardt) implementation in Java for nonlinear least squares problems.
• Miscellaneous
• GOOSE, GNU Object-Oriented Statistics Environment (C++).
• Borneo, a dialect of the Java language designed to have true support for the IEEE 754 floating point standard.
• SDTS++, a library for manipulating SDTS datasets (geographical information systems)
• Newran, C++ library for generating streams of random numbers.
• Multivariate polynomial interpolation library in C++
• MPI-2 C++ bindings (message passing library for parallel computers)
• CNCL, Communication networks simulation/analysis library (C++).
• OOMF, Object Oriented MicroMagnetic computing Framework at ITL/NIST
• CPPF77, a utility for interfacing C++ and Fortran 77 programs.
• The Standard Template Library (STL)
• The Bench++ Benchmark Suite
• EFLIB: Extended Function Library for Object-Pascal. Generalized arithmetics, equation solvers, more.


• Tools
  • TAU (Tuning and Analysis Utilities), explicit instrumentation of C++ libraries for profiling and tracing. For both serial and parallel codes.

• Compilers
  • KAI C++, an optimizing compiler from Kuck & Associates (now a division of Intel). Unfortunately, this product has been discontinued.
  • The free GCC (Gnu Compiler Collection) has a good C++ compiler which can be used under unix or windows (with CygWin).
  • Intel's C++ compiler.
  • The Portland Group C++ compiler
  • The MPC++, a massively parallel, message passing, meta-level processing C++.
  • Titanium (free), a dialect of Java for large-scale scientific computing.




Commercial software

• Diffpack, a development framework for multi-physics simulations (C++).
• VectorSpace provides vs.lib (integrable/differentiable objects in C++) and fe.lib (an object-oriented finite element library).
• NMath provides vector, matrix, complex numbers and math functions for the .NET platform (e.g. C#)
• macstl, std::valarray implementation using SIMD opcodes (Altivec on PowerPC, SSE/SSE2 on Intel)
• ExacMath library (quad and double-quad precision floating point math), from Floating Point Software.
• Math.h++ and LAPACK.h++ from Rogue Wave Software, Inc (LAPACK.h++ is not the same package as Roldan Pozo's LAPACK++ listed above)
• MtxVec, linear algebra/numerical library for Delphi and C++ Builder.
• Extreme Optimization Library, numerical library for .NET
• MAT<LIB> (Matlab compatible C++ Matrix Class Library)
• C-XSC: A C++ Class Library for Extended Scientific Computing (A C++ interval methods class library)
• Siscat, C++ software for scattered data approximation
• JNL, A numerical language/library proposal for Java from Visual Numerics.
• LIA,GIA,ICE libraries for interval methods in C++ from Delisoft Ltd. Includes interval arithmetic, global optimization, and solving nonlinear equations.
• AMRES, a C++ library for financial analysis.

• The Java Grande Forum, high performance Java computing.
• Java Numerics Working Group at NIST.
• The National (American) HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE)
• The High Performance C++ (HPC++) Project
• LHC++, class libraries for the high-energy physics community.

• Bernd Mohr's course on C++ in postscript or pdf. These slides are geared toward scientific users.
• Todd V's notes on Techniques for Scientific C++. Also available in Postscript.
• C++ Programming for Scientists, course slides by Roldan Pozo and Karen Remington
• Fortran 2000 will introduce many object-oriented features (click on "Content of Fortran 2000" to see working papers)
• Paper: C++ Gets Faster for Scientific Computing, by Arch Robison, from Computers In Physics
• Paper: Expression Templates, a C++ template technique for evaluating matrix and vector expressions efficiently.
• Paper: Template Metaprograms, a method for compile-time algorithm specialization in C++.
• Paper: Comparison of C++ and Fortran 90 for Object-Oriented Scientific Programming
• High Performance Object-Oriented Programming in Fortran 90

• POOSC 2003, Parallel Object-Oriented Scientific Computing, July 22, Darmstadt, Germany
• Joint ACM Java Grande - ISCOPE 2001 Conference, Stanford University, California, June 2-4, 2001
• Java Grande 2000, San Francisco, California, June 3-5, 2000
• ISCOPE'99: International Symposium on Computing in Object-oriented Parallel Environments, December 7-10 1999, San Francisco, California
• POOSC'99 Workshop on Parallel/High-performance Object-Oriented Scientific Computing at the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP'99), Lisbon, Portugal, June 14-18.
• ACM 1999 Java Grande Conference, Palo Alto, California, June 12-14.
• ISCOPE'98: International Symposium on Computing in Object-oriented Parallel Environments, December 8-11 1998, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• SIAM Workshop on Object-Oriented Methods for Inter-operable Scientific and Engineering Computing, October 21-23, 1998, Yorktown Heights, New York
• SciTools'98: Workshop on Modern Software Tools for Scientific Computing, Sept. 14 - 16, Oslo, Norway
• POOSC'98: Workshop on Parallel Object-Oriented Scientific Computing, Brussels, Belgium, July 20-24 1998.
• ACM 1998 Workshop on Java for High-Performance Network Computing, Palo Alto, California, February 28 and March 1, 1998.
• International Scientific Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments (ISCOPE'97), Marina del Rey, California, December 8-11, 1997.
• Physics Computing'97, Santa Cruz, California, August 25-28, 1996. Included a session on object-oriented methods.
• ACM 1997 Workshop on Java for Science and Engineering Computation June 21-27, 1997.
• SciTools'96: Workshop on Modern Software Tools for Scientific Computing, Sept. 16 - 18, Oslo, Norway
• Object Oriented Numerics Conference (OONSCI'96) (broken URL) Mississippi State University, March 27-29, 1996
• International Workshop on Parallel C++, Kanazawa, Japan March 10-12, 1996
• POOMA'96: Parallel Object-Oriented Methods and Applications Conference, Feb. 28 - Mar. 1, Santa Fe, New Mexico

• 6dof.com, Simulation and Finite Elements web Portal
• Java for Scientific Computing
• Netlib Repository, the source for free scientific/numerical codes. Predominantly C and Fortran.
• Free C/C++ Sources for Numerical Computation
• GAMS Problem Decision Tree, a hierarchical guide to numerical libraries.
• WWW C++ information from Forschungszentrum Juelich
• The Linux Software Encyclopaedia: C++
• Linux Software for Scientists
• Parallel C++ Projects Archive
• Numerical Analysis Objects (NAO) at IBM
• Parallel Programming with C++ web index from Forschungszentrum Juelich
• The Internet Parallel Computing Archive's page about Parallel C++
• A Summary of Research in Object-Oriented Programming
• Cetus Links - Thousands of Links on Objects and Components
• Mathworks has a decent index of scientific C++ and Java.
• An index of C++ Libraries for various applications, from DESY
• Available C++ libraries FAQ
• Yoyodyne: Object-Oriented Programming in Engineering
• SAL: Scientific Applications on Linux
• Long list of mathematical software packages (not just OO) from the Mathematics Archives
• The Object-Oriented Page, long list of object-oriented resources.