The Matrix Template Library: generic components for high-performance scientific computing

The paper discusses the Matrix Template Library, a generic component library for scientific computing. Although MTL consists of a relatively small number of software components, its power and utility arise from the composability of the components and the generic nature of the algorithms. That is, the components can be composed arbitrarily to produce an extremely wide variety of matrix formats. Similarly, each algorithm can operate on any matrix type defined in this fashion.