Posted by Scott Betts on September 05, 1997 at 14:32:19:
In Reply to: Re: Solving sparse, non-symmetric matrix without pivoting posted by Scott Betts on September 05, 1997 at 14:00:34:
: : I have a sparse, non-symmetric matrix that does not require
: : pivoting to solve. Is there software to solve this problem, or do I need to use something like SuperLU (that has the extra overhead of pivoting)?
: : Thanks,
: : Mike
: Mike,
: I've forwarded your question to the Lapack
: gurus. They should be able to help you. Their email
: address is lapack@cs.utk.edu.
: Hope this helps!
: Scott
Mike,
They responded to you via email, but just in
case you didn't get it, or others have the same problem,
here is their reply:
The short answer is that there is a plethora of sparse matrix
packages available, and most of them are public domain. Do
you plan to use a direct method or an iterative method? Are
these large sparse problems? Will you be using a serial
algorithm or parallel? I'm not sure if any of the packages
allows for no pivoting. They have names like SPARSPAK, SPARSKIT,
SuperLU, etc.
You can access the NHSE homepage and do a search of the netlib
database for sparse packages:
http://www.netlib.org/utk/misc/netlib_query.html
And you can try looking at the URLs:
http://www.netlib.org/scalapack/index.html
and refer to the entries for ARPACK and CAPSS.
You can also try searching for petsc, it's a parallel sparse
iterative package.
I would suggest contacting the authors of some of these
packages and see what they can suggest.
Hope this helps.
Susan
susan@cs.utk.edu