ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) is an ongoing research effort focusing on applying empirical techniques in order to provide portable performance. At present, it provides C and Fortran77 interfaces to a portably efficient BLAS implementation, as well as a few routines from LAPACK. This conflicts with cblas (only one of atlas and cblas may be installed at any given time). Take care with LAPACK (see notes 3 & 4 in README.SLACKWARE). You need to read over README.SLACKWARE *before* building this.