pbdSLAP provides scalable linear algebra packages including BLACS, PBLAS, and
ScaLAPACK via pbdMPI based on ScaLAPACK version 2.0.2.

pbdSLAP requires
  - R version 2.14.0 or higher with pbdMPI installed.
  - SUN HPC 8.2.1 (OpenMPI) for Solaris.
  - OpenMPI for Linux.
  - OpenMPI for Mac OS X.
  - MS-MPI for Windows.

For installing pbdSLAP, 
  - see "INSTALL" for Solaris, Linux and Mac OS.
  - see "INSTALL.win.*" for Windows.

More information about pbdSLAP can be found in
  1. pbdSLAP vignette at 'pbdSLAP/inst/doc/pbdSLAP-guide.pdf'.
  2. 'http://r-pbd.org/'.
