Re: Sparse Matrix, Memory Allocation
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- Subject: [mg31642] Re: Sparse Matrix, Memory Allocation
- From: "Robert Nowak" <robert.nowak at ims.co.at>
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 05:46:06 -0500 (EST)
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look at the mathematica help for SparseLinearSolve
SparseLinearSolve[smat, vec] solves a sparse linear system;
the matrix smat is represented in the form {{i1,j1}->a1, {i2,j2}->a2,...}
so that the element at position ik,jk has value ak and all unspecified
elements are taken to be zero.
Robert
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Inkyu Rhee <Inkyu.Rhee at colorado.edu> wrote in message
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> I have a 70000 by 70000(or more) banded sparse matrix.
> and this matrix will be updated by specific law for 50 loops.
> In each loop, I need to linear solution of this.
>
> My prblems are:
>
> I could not specify this matrix:
>
> K=Table[0,{70000},{70000}];(* Initialize the matrix K *)
>
> when I trying this in my machines ((1) sun:ram 750M, swap 2665M,
> (2) window:A800mhz, 128Mb),
> machine gives me 'Out of Memory, Exiting'.
> How do you specify this matrix efficiently?
>
> If this works well, I will update these components of matrix
> using certain law. Then I need to solve the equations.
>
> Developer`SparseLinearSolve[K,x]
>
> I tried this part using 10000 by 10000 instead of 70000.
> It also give me 'Out of Memory ...'.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> I. Rhee
>