Introduction

During 2004 and early 2005, a number of customers and math vendors expressed an interest in standardizing on numerical mathematics to enable portability of algorithms. An initial working group put together a draft technical scope and charter document which received good reactions from both the vendor and user communities. This group has evolved into a formal working group, the Numerical Mathematics Consortium (NMC), with the purpose of promoting standardization of core numerical mathematics. NMC membership is open to users and vendors interested in these issues. Those interested in joining the consortium can contact any of the member companies or the consortium itself.