Re: [Help-gsl] sparse matrix ?

[Brian Gough]

Amruta D Purandare writes:
 > 
 > Hello !
 > 
 > I am looking for a library that provides exactly the same functionality
 > as described in the Vectors and Matrices section of GSL 
 > documentation however on very large and sparse vectors/matrices. 
 > 
 > Is there any vector/matrix specific library that you recommend ? I see
 > GSL provides lot more than what I need and also doesn't seem to support
 > sparse vectors/matrices. 

Hello,

The term "sparse" gets used to cover a lot of different problems.
Depending on the pattern of sparsity in the matrix different
approaches are needed.

There a quite a few packages on www.Netlib.org, but you have to find
the one that is appropriate to your problem.

This is why GSL doesn't have sparse matrix support -- there are too
many possibilities to handle in a single library.

regards,

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Brian Gough

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