redhat man page for sporfs

SPORFS(l)								 )								 SPORFS(l)

NAME
       SPORFS - improve the computed solution to a system of linear equations when the coefficient matrix is symmetric positive definite,

SYNOPSIS
       SUBROUTINE SPORFS( UPLO, N, NRHS, A, LDA, AF, LDAF, B, LDB, X, LDX, FERR, BERR, WORK, IWORK, INFO )

	   CHARACTER	  UPLO

	   INTEGER	  INFO, LDA, LDAF, LDB, LDX, N, NRHS

	   INTEGER	  IWORK( * )

	   REAL 	  A( LDA, * ), AF( LDAF, * ), B( LDB, * ), BERR( * ), FERR( * ), WORK( * ), X( LDX, * )

PURPOSE
       SPORFS  improves the computed solution to a system of linear equations when the coefficient matrix is symmetric positive definite, and pro-
       vides error bounds and backward error estimates for the solution.

ARGUMENTS
       UPLO    (input) CHARACTER*1
	       = 'U':  Upper triangle of A is stored;
	       = 'L':  Lower triangle of A is stored.

       N       (input) INTEGER
	       The order of the matrix A.  N >= 0.

       NRHS    (input) INTEGER
	       The number of right hand sides, i.e., the number of columns of the matrices B and X.  NRHS >= 0.

       A       (input) REAL array, dimension (LDA,N)
	       The symmetric matrix A.	If UPLO = 'U', the leading N-by-N upper triangular part of A contains the upper  triangular  part  of  the
	       matrix  A,  and the strictly lower triangular part of A is not referenced.  If UPLO = 'L', the leading N-by-N lower triangular part
	       of A contains the lower triangular part of the matrix A, and the strictly upper triangular part of A is not referenced.

       LDA     (input) INTEGER
	       The leading dimension of the array A.  LDA >= max(1,N).

       AF      (input) REAL array, dimension (LDAF,N)
	       The triangular factor U or L from the Cholesky factorization A = U**T*U or A = L*L**T, as computed by SPOTRF.

       LDAF    (input) INTEGER
	       The leading dimension of the array AF.  LDAF >= max(1,N).

       B       (input) REAL array, dimension (LDB,NRHS)
	       The right hand side matrix B.

       LDB     (input) INTEGER
	       The leading dimension of the array B.  LDB >= max(1,N).

       X       (input/output) REAL array, dimension (LDX,NRHS)
	       On entry, the solution matrix X, as computed by SPOTRS.	On exit, the improved solution matrix X.

       LDX     (input) INTEGER
	       The leading dimension of the array X.  LDX >= max(1,N).

       FERR    (output) REAL array, dimension (NRHS)
	       The estimated forward error bound for each solution vector X(j) (the j-th column of the solution matrix X).  If XTRUE is  the  true
	       solution  corresponding	to  X(j),  FERR(j)  is an estimated upper bound for the magnitude of the largest element in (X(j) - XTRUE)
	       divided by the magnitude of the largest element in X(j).  The estimate is as reliable as the estimate  for  RCOND,  and	is  almost
	       always a slight overestimate of the true error.

       BERR    (output) REAL array, dimension (NRHS)
	       The componentwise relative backward error of each solution vector X(j) (i.e., the smallest relative change in any element of A or B
	       that makes X(j) an exact solution).

       WORK    (workspace) REAL array, dimension (3*N)

       IWORK   (workspace) INTEGER array, dimension (N)

       INFO    (output) INTEGER
	       = 0:  successful exit
	       < 0:  if INFO = -i, the i-th argument had an illegal value

PARAMETERS
       ITMAX is the maximum number of steps of iterative refinement.

LAPACK version 3.0						   15 June 2000 							 SPORFS(l)