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+
+# Mobile Tools for Java (J2ME)
+.mtj.tmp/
+
+# Package Files #
+*.jar
+*.war
+*.ear
+
+# virtual machine crash logs, see http://www.java.com/en/download/help/error_hotspot.xml
+hs_err_pid*
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+# Java Linpack Benchmark
+
+Java Linpack Benchmark is a translation of the popular Linpack benchmark, originally written in Fortran. The Benchmark is a numerically intensive test that has been used for years to measure the floating point performance of computers.
+
+To see more about the project, visit:
+http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/linpackjava/
+
+
+## How to use
+
+Compile by run:
+
+    javac -O Linpack.java
+
+To run:
+
+    java Linpack
+
+## Contributors
+
+Modified 3/3/97 by David M. Doolin (dmd) doolin[at]cs.utk.edu
+Fixed error in matgen() method. Added some comments.
+
+Modified 1/22/97 by Paul McMahan mcmahan[at]cs.utk.edu
+Added more MacOS options to form.
+
+Optimized by Jonathan Hardwick (jch[at]cs.cmu.edu), 3/28/96
+Compare to Linkpack.java.
+Optimizations performed:
+
+ - added "final" modifier to performance-critical methods.
+ - changed lines of the form "a[i] = a[i] + x" to "a[i] += x".
+ - minimized array references using common subexpression elimination.
+ - eliminated unused variables.
+ - undid an unrolled loop.
+ - added temporary 1D arrays to hold frequently-used columns of 2D arrays.
+ - wrote my own abs() method
+
+See http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/linpack.html for more details.
+
+
+Ported to Java by Reed Wade  (wade[cs.utk.edu) 2/96
+built using JDK 1.0 on solaris
+using "javac -O Linpack.java"
+
+
+Translated to C by Bonnie Toy 5/88
+  (modified on 2/25/94  to fix a problem with daxpy  for
+   unequal increments or equal increments not equal to 1.
+     Jack Dongarra)
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-
-To compile:
-
-  javac -O Linpack.java
-
-To run:
-
-  java Linpack