Solving Non-Linear Sparse Systems

[Brian Gough]

Saba Shadi writes:
 > Hi, i am a researcher at the computer graphics field.  i am
 > working with the GSL and *unfortunately* there is not even
 > a little support for sparse matrices ,which are extremely
 > demanded when solving non-linear system of 100000 variable
 > ...  most of the sparse matrix packages are only for Linear
 > algebra , with no root finding algorithms,, are you aware
 > of an extension for GSL , or another library for supporting
 > huge sparse non-linear system solving?

See the archives of the list for previous discussions on why
sparse matrices are not in GSL -- they tend to be very
problem-specific.

-- 
Brian

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