1. A package of linear algebra routines. 2. The kernel benchmark developed from the "LINPACK" package of linear algebra routines. It was written by Jack dongarra <dongarra@cs.utk.edu> in Fortran and is commonly used in that language but there is also a C version. Source Code by FTP: {single precision Fortran (ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/benchmark/linpacks.Z)}, {double precision Fortran (ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/benchmark/linpackd.Z)}, C . {Results (http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/linpack.data.col0.html)}. (1994-11-14)