diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/librsb/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/librsb/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ef8b9ee441d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/librsb/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl
+, gfortran
+, pkg-config, libtool
+, m4, gnum4
+, file
+# Memory Hierarchy (End-user can provide this.)
+, memHierarchy ? ""
+# Headers/Libraries
+, blas, zlib
+# RPC headers (rpc/xdr.h)
+, openmpi
+, help2man
+, doxygen
+, octave
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "librsb";
+  version = "1.2.0.9";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/${pname}/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1ynrsgnvv1jfm8dv3jwjrip9x9icxv7w3qrk149025j6fbaza8gl";
+  };
+
+  # The default configure flags are still present when building
+  # --disable-static --disable-dependency-tracking
+  # Along with the --prefix=... flag (but we want that one).
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--enable-static"
+    "--enable-doc-build"
+    "--enable-octave-testing"
+    "--enable-sparse-blas-interface"
+    "--enable-fortran-module-install"
+    "--enable-pkg-config-install"
+    "--enable-matrix-types=all"
+    "--with-zlib=${zlib}/lib/libz.so"
+    "--with-memhinfo=${memHierarchy}"
+  ];
+
+  # Ensure C/Fortran code is position-independent.
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = [ "-fPIC" "-Ofast" ];
+  FCFLAGS = [ "-fPIC" "-Ofast" ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    gfortran
+    pkg-config libtool
+    m4 gnum4
+    file
+    blas zlib
+    openmpi
+    octave
+    help2man # Turn "--help" into a man-page
+    doxygen # Build documentation
+  ];
+
+  # Need to run cleanall target to remove any previously-generated files.
+  preBuild = ''
+    make cleanall
+  '';
+
+  checkInputs = [
+    octave
+  ];
+  checkTarget = "tests";
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "http://librsb.sourceforge.net/";
+    description = "Shared memory parallel sparse matrix and sparse BLAS library";
+    longDescription = ''
+      Library for sparse matrix computations featuring the Recursive Sparse
+      Blocks (RSB) matrix format. This format allows cache efficient and
+      multi-threaded (that is, shared memory parallel) operations on large
+      sparse matrices.
+      librsb implements the Sparse BLAS standard, as specified in the BLAS
+      Forum documents.
+      Contains libraries and header files for developing applications that
+      want to make use of librsb.
+    '';
+    license = with licenses; [ lgpl3Plus ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ KarlJoad ];
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 692fdbf96cbd..d68c7a02de20 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -14860,6 +14860,11 @@ in
 
   librime = callPackage ../development/libraries/librime {};
 
+  librsb = callPackage ../development/libraries/librsb {
+    # Taken from https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/science/librsb/librsb.spec
+    memHierarchy = "L3:16/64/8192K,L2:16/64/2048K,L1:8/64/16K";
+  };
+
   librtprocess = callPackage ../development/libraries/librtprocess { };
 
   libsamplerate = callPackage ../development/libraries/libsamplerate {