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{{short description|Legacy scientific programming software collection by CERN}}

{{Infobox_Software | name = CERN Program Library

{{Infobox software

{{Infobox_Software | name = CERN Program Library

| developer = [[CERN]]

| latest_release_version = 2005{{Start date and age|2023.08.14}}

| latest_release_date = May{{Start 9,date 2005and age|2023|08|14}}

| operating_system = [[Cross-platform]]

| genre = [[List of numerical analysis software|Technical computing]]

| license = [[GNU General Public License]], except for [[GEANT (program)|GEANT]]

| website = [http://wwwasd.web.{{URL|cern.ch/wwwasd/index.html]cernlib}}

}}

{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}

The '''CERN Program Library''' ('''CERNLIB''') is a collection of general purpose software libraries and program modules for scientific computing, developed at the European Organization for Nuclear Research [[CERN]].<ref name="cern2014">{{Cite web

|url=https://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/

|title=Cern Program Library

|publisher=European Organization for Nuclear Research

|date=2014-10-10

|access-date=2023-02-22

}}</ref> The application area of the library focuses on physics research, in particular [[high energy physics]], involving general mathematics, [[data analysis]], detectors simulation, data-handling, [[numerical analysis]], and others, applicable to a wide range of scientific problems. Many modules are written in the [[FORTRAN 77]] language.

The major fields covered by the libraries contained therein arewere:

The '''CERN Program Library''' or '''CERNLIB''' is a collection of [[FORTRAN77]] libraries and modules, maintained by [[CERN]]. Its content ranges from more specialized [[data analysis]] of [[high energy physics]] to general purpose [[numerical analysis]]. Lower-level parts of the CERN Program Library are most prominently used by the data analysis software [[PAW]] and the detector simulation framework [[GEANT (program)|GEANT]] (which themselves are contained in the CERN Program Library).

The major fields covered by the libraries contained therein are:

* Detector simulation

* [[Elementary particle]] data

* Graphics and plotting

* Histograming

* [[Hadron]]ic [[event generator|event generation]]

* [[I/O]] and structured data storage

* Numerical analysis

* [[Statistics]] and data analysis

* Detector simulation and [[Hadron]]ic [[event generator|event generation]]

Lower-level parts of the CERN Program Library were most prominently used by the data analysis software [[Physics Analysis Workstation]] (PAW) and the detector simulation framework [[GEANT-3|GEANT]], both of which are also part of the CERN Program Library.

CERN Program Library uses the year as its version, with not explicitly denoted minor revisions within a year. Besides legacy software dependency, for newer softwares written in [[C plus plus|C++]], CERNLIB is mostly superseded by [[ROOT]].

CERN Program Library usesused the year as its version, with not explicitly denoted minor revisions within a year. Besides legacy software dependency, for newer softwaresapplications written in [[C plus plus|C++]], CERNLIB is mostly superseded by [[ROOT]].

== External links ==

==Status==

*[http://wwwasd.web.cern.ch/wwwasd/cernlib/ CERN Program Library homepage at CERN]

Development and support for CERNLIB was discontinued in 2003.<ref name="cern2014"/> Libraries were still available "as is" "for ever" from [https://web.archive.org/web/20060520110912/http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/version.html the CERNLIB web site] but with no new code, no user support and no port to [[IA-64]].

The code was revitalized in 2022,<ref name ="CERNLIB status">{{cite arXiv | eprint=2303.07506 | last1=Schwickerath | first1=Ulrich | last2=Verbytskyi | first2=Andrii | title=CERNLIB status | date=2023 | class=physics.comp-ph }}</ref> multiple patches were added and as of 2023 the code can be compiled on multiple architectures either with its native build system [[imake]] or with the [[CMake]].

[[Category:Numerical software]]

The revitalized version is based on the CERNLIB release 2006.

[[Category:Physics software]]

==References==

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== External links ==

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*[http://wwwasd.web.{{Official website|cern.ch/wwwasd/cernlib/}}, CERN Program Library homepage at CERN]

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[[Category:Fortran libraries]]

[[Category:Free mathematics software]]

[[Category:Free physics software]]

[[Category:Free software programmed in Fortran]]

[[Category:Numerical software]]

[[Category:PhysicsCERN software]]