–BLAS3 (late
1980s)
•matrix-matrix operations: matrix
matrix multiply, etc
•m >= 4n^2, f=O(n^3), so q can
possibly be as large as n, so BLAS3 is potentially much
faster than BLAS2
•Good algorithms used BLAS3 when possible (LAPACK)
•www.netlib.org/blas, www.netlib.org/lapack