How is ATLAS funded?
ATLAS development is presently funded by both government contract and NSF CRI CNS-0551504 award, as described here. I originally started ATLAS development when I worked at the Innovative Computer Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. I got enough of it working to convince Jack (Dongarra, of LAPACK and BLAS fame) to give the development go-ahead on my own time. After that, ATLAS was written into a variety of grants, but was never funded (to my knowledge) solely on its own grant at ICL. I believe some of it’s later development took place under the NSF grant “Linear Algebra Algorithms and Tools for Emerging Computing Environments and User Communities”, Grant Number ACI-9813362. Both Antoine and myself (the two full-time ATLAS researchers and developers) left ICL in 2001. After this date, ATLAS work was pretty much entirely unsupported, which slowed development in a massive way. However, in 2003, Advanced Micro Devices funded a year of my graduate studies in return for some Opteron tu
