On Friday, April 9, 2010, Alec Mihailovs <alec.mihail...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 9, 1:53 pm, Leo Maloney <leo.b.malo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to compute the inverse of a 5000 x 5000 sparse matrix.  I'm
>> getting an EOF error after it runs for about 5 hours, and then it
>> states that sage is trying to access unallocated memory.  Is there a
>> way I can increase the memory for this computation?  Every time I
>> Google it, all I can find is the benefits sage(plant) has on memory.
>
> As other people commented, that should be faster if the original
> matrix was dense.
>
> In general, it is possible to write a procedure for inverting a
> matrix, writing the answer on the disk incrementally, appending it to
> a file - that may be slower, but removes the restriction on the RAM
> size (but one would need to have enough space on the hard drive
> instead) - I am not volunteering though.

A 5000x5000 matrix just isn't really that big, IMHO...

>
> Alec
>
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