section_path: Usage and applications/Scientific computation
section_name: Scientific computation
paragraph_text: Scientific computation
  
  Nearly all scientific computations involve linear algebra. Consequently, linear algebra algorithms have been highly optimized. BLAS and LAPACK are the best known implementations. For improving efficiency, some of them configure the algorithms automatically, at run time, for adapting them to the specificities of the computer (cache size, number of available cores,...).
  
  Some processors, typically graphics processing units (GPU), are designed with a matrix structure, for optimizing the operations of linear algebra.