Scalapack is the parallel version of lapack. it depends on pvm or mpi.

this package provides the man pages for the routines in the scalapack library (see package scalapack1-pvm, scalapack1-mpich or scalapack1-lam) and a quick reference for pblas and scalapack. pblas is the library for parallel basic linear algebra subprograms included in scalapack.

also included: scalapack users' guide (slug) and the faq on scalapack.