5 Acknowledgments

Jan Fostier was support by a doctoral grant from the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation through Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT-Vlaanderen).

We thank SourceForge.net for providing us with a reliable SubVersion (SVN) server and a website. We are especially grateful to the maintainers of SourceForge for helping us out on several occasions.

We are grateful for all the efforts of our system administrator Bert De Vuyst. His countless interventions saved the day on numerous occasions.

We thank the GNU/Linux community for providing us with the tools we needed in the development of our software.

We thank the creators of the FFTW software (Steven Johnson and Mateo Frigo), for providing us with a reliable tools for fast calculation of the DFTs. We are also grateful to them for providing us with a texinfo template we used for creating this manual.

We thank Steven Johnson for the acx_blas.m4, acx_lapack.m4 and acx_mpi.m4 macro's. We thank Jaroslav Hajek for the acx_blas_with_f77_func.m4 macro. We thank the people from Octave for providing us with inspiration for the configure.in script.

We thank the authors of the Parallel Iterative Methods of PIM (Rudnei Dias da Cunha and Tim Hopkins) for their software.

We thank the authors of the AMOS library (Donald E. Amos) for his library for the calculation of special functions.

We thank the people at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) for pre-testing our software.

Prof. Femke Olyslager stimulated us in creating this software as GNU package to the community. We are of course, grateful for that.