FFTW - Fastest Fourier Transform in the West
…FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of arbitrary input size, and of both real and complex data (as well as of even/odd data, i.e. the discrete cosine/sine transforms or DCT/DST). They believe that FFTW, which is free software, should become the FFT library of choice for most applications.
The benchmarks, performed on a variety of platforms, show that FFTW’s performance is typically superior to that of other publicly available FFT software, and is even competitive with vendor-tuned codes. In contrast to vendor-tuned codes, however, FFTW’s performance is portable: the same program will perform well on most architecture without modification. Hence the name, “FFTW,” which stands for the somewhat whimsical title of “Fastest Fourier Transform in the West”. The FFTW package was developed at MIT by Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson…
