Re: OON: How do I make sparse linear algrebra faster?

From: Oliver Axel Ruebenacker (oliver@physics.umass.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 18:07:30 EST


        Hello!

> I have an application that spends nearly all its time in a generalize
> eigenvalue problem with very large (say 10-20 million rows)
> and very sparse (either ~16 or ~44 non zeros per row) matrices.

  Excuse my curiousity, but what applications are there out there that use
such matrices? Are you actually able to directly diagonalize such a
matrix?
  Thanks for the information.

        Take care
        Oliver

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