IMSL Numerical Libraries
IMSL (International Mathematics and Statistics Library) is a commercial collection of software libraries of numerical analysis functionality that are implemented in the computer programming languages of C, Java, C#.NET, and Fortran. A Python interface is also available.
The IMSL Libraries are provided by Visual Numerics Inc. Visual Numerics also provides PV-WAVE, a Fourth-generation programming language (4GL) visual data analysis development environment.
Version History and Current Releases
The first IMSL Library for the Fortran language was released in 1970, followed by a C language version originally called C/Base in 1991, a Java language version in 2002 and the C# language version in 2004.
Several recent product releases have involved making IMSL Library functions available from Python. These releases are Python wrappers to IMSL C Library functions (PyIMSL wrappers) and PyIMSL Studio, a prototyping and production application development environment based on Python and the IMSL C Library.
Current versions:
- IMSL C Library V 7.0 - November 2008
- PyIMSL Studio V 1.0 - February 2009
- PyIMSL wrappers V 1.0 - August 2008
- IMSL C# Library V 5.0 - January 2008
- JMSL Library V 5.0 - January 2008
- IMSL Fortran Library V 6.0 - February 2007
Platform Availability
The IMSL Numerical Libraries are supported on various operating systems, hardware and compilers.
- Operating system support includes Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows
- Hardware support includes AMD, Intel, Apple Inc., Cray, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NEC, SGI and Sun Microsystems
- Compiler support includes Absoft, GCC, Intel, Microsoft, and Portland