C API Library for Solving Sparse Systems of Linear Equations?
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02-03-2021 - |
Question
I need to solve a large, sparse system of linear equations from a program written in D. Ideally I'd like a library with a D-style interface, but I doubt one exists. However, D can directly access C APIs. Therefore, please suggest some libraries that solve large, sparse systems of linear equations with the following characteristics:
Exposes a C API.
Free/open source. Preferably non-copyleft, too, but this is not a hard requirement.
Well-tested and debugged. Easy to set up and use. Not written by academics just to get a paper on their method and then completely unmaintained.
Solution
The classical library for sparse problem is suite-sparse. You have packages on many systems. Matlab uses it internally.
OTHER TIPS
My bad, I tangle LAPACK that I used old time ago and ARPACK that I used more time ago.
Here is link to arpack http://www.caam.rice.edu/~kristyn/parpack_home.html: The package is designed to compute a few eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors of a general n by n matrix A. It is most appropriate for large sparse or structured matrices.
And here link with comparison of libaries for Linear Algebra:
http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/la-sw.html
you can find there SparseLib++, mentioned here arpack and much more libaries in matrix form.