Newbie question: big matrix calculations
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- Subject: [mg9253] Newbie question: big matrix calculations
- From: dscott at ews.uiuc.edu (Dennis Wayne Scott)
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 01:01:06 -0400
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
This is the first time I've ever been in this newsgroup, so please try to excuse anything I do/say that's silly to the experts... I have three 100x100 sparse (diagonal) matrices (matrxD, matrxU, and matrxL) and three 100x1 matrices (b, x2, and x1), and I'm performing several operation on them: x2 = -Inverse[matrxD].(matrxL+matrxU).x1+Inverse[matrxD].b; I have to do it MANY, MANY times... with a 5x5 matrix it takes a few minutes, but with a 100x100 it takes longer than eight hours (and still running). Does anyone (offhandedly) know of a way to reduce the time this takes for Mathematica to solve? I'm using a P133 and Mathematica 2.2. The entire hunk of code is viewable at: http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~dscott/PartB.gif solved for a 5x5 matrix "size". PS-I've already tried decreasing the "accrcy" and changing my initial "guess"... Thanks! -- Dennis W. Scott, Jr. University of Illinois at Urbana dscott at ews.uiuc.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------- Aspiring Electrical Engineer "I want to know God's thoughts...
