... The original goal of the LAPACK project was to make the widely used EISPACK and LINPACK libraries (in Netlib ) run efficiently on shared-memory vector and parallel processors. ... Though Linux binary is not there, you could look at LAPACK and BLAS Libraries for Linux (LAPACK version 2.0 though) and Dynamically Loadable LAPACK items in SAL. ... Some commercial numerical libraries such as NAG F77 library and some commercial compilers such as PGI compiling system come with compiled BLAS and LAPACK. ...