GNU Scientific Library

Category: Libraries-Math

Description

The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a numerical library for C and C++ programmers. It is free software under the GNU General Public License.

The library provides a wide range of mathematical routines such as random number generators, special functions and least-squares fitting. There are over 1000 functions in total with an extensive test suite.

The complete range of subject areas covered by the library includes,
Complex Numbers Roots of Polynomials
Special Functions Vectors and Matrices
Permutations Sorting
BLAS Support Linear Algebra
Eigensystems Fast Fourier Transforms
Quadrature Random Numbers
Quasi-Random Sequences Random Distributions
Statistics Histograms
N-Tuples Monte Carlo Integration
Simulated Annealing Differential Equations
Interpolation Numerical Differentiation
Chebyshev Approximation Series Acceleration
Discrete Hankel Transforms Root-Finding
Minimization Least-Squares Fitting
Physical Constants IEEE Floating-Point
Discrete Wavelet Transforms   Basis splines

Use

The GSL library is available as a module. The simplest use case is

 module avail gsl
 module load gsl/1.11
 gcc test.c ${GSL_LIB}
We also define an environment variable GSL_DIR that points to the installation directory of GSL.

Support

This package has the following support level : Unsupported

Available Versions

Version Available Builds
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1.12
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