Developer Reference for Intel® oneAPI Math Kernel Library - C

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Matrix Storage Schemes for BLAS Routines

Matrix arguments of BLAS
and CBLAS
 routines can use the following storage schemes:
  • Full storage
    : a matrix
    A
     is stored in a two-dimensional array
    a
    , with the matrix element
    A
    ij
     stored in the array element
    a
    [
    i
     +
    j
    *
    lda
    ]
     for column-major layout and
    a
    [
    j
     +
    i
    *
    lda
    ]
     for row-major layout, where
    lda
     is the leading dimension for the array
    .
  • Packed storage
     scheme allows you to store symmetric, Hermitian, or triangular matrices more compactly
    . For column-major layout, the upper or lower triangle of the matrix is packed by columns in a one dimensional array. For row-major layout, the upper or lower triangle of the matrix is packed by rows in a one dimensional array.
  • Band storage
    : a band matrix is stored compactly in a two-dimensional array.
    For column-major layout, columns of the matrix are stored in the corresponding columns of the array, and diagonals of the matrix are stored in a specific row of the array. For row-major layout, rows of the matrix are stored in the corresponding rows of the array, and diagonals of the matrix are stored in a specific column of the array.
For more information on matrix storage schemes, see Matrix Arguments in
the
Appendix
“Routine and Function Arguments”
.

Row-Major and Column-Major Layout

The BLAS routines follow the Fortran convention of storing two-dimensional arrays using column-major layout. When calling BLAS routines from C, remember that they require arrays to be in column-major format, not the row-major format that is the convention for C.
Unless otherwise specified, the psuedo-code examples for the BLAS routines illustrate matrices stored using column-major layout.
The CBLAS interface allows you to specify either column-major or row-major layout for BLAS Level 2 and Level 3 routines, by setting the
layout
 parameter to
CblasColMajor
 or
CblasRowMajor
.

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