Proposals:Sparse Linear Solvers
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The Problem
ITK requires functionalities for solving large sparse linear systems.
The current solution obtained though VXL must be replaced because it relies internally on code whose Copyright is held by ACM, and is subject to a license that precludes commercial use.
Previous Review
Tom Vercauteren previously gathered the following list of options.
ITK_Release_4.0#3rd_Party_Libraries
Options
Comparative Table
| Name | License | Size | Support Sparse | Language | Coverage | Valgrind | CMakeified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SuiteSparse | LGPL | Unknown | Unknown | ||||
| TAUCS | MIT | C | Unknown | Unknown | |||
| SuperLU | BSD | Unknown | Unknown | ||||
| Eigen | LGPL | C++ | Unknown | Unknown | |||
| Boost Numeric Bindings | Unknown | Unknown | |||||
| ARPACK++ | C++ | Unknown | Unknown | ||||
| MUMPS | Public Domain | 11 Mb | Unknown | Unknown | |||
| clapack | BSD | 22 Mb | ?? | C | 80% | Unknown | Yes |
| PLASMA | BSD | 13 Mb |
SuiteSparse
- License: LGPL
- Home: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/SuiteSparse
TAUCS
- License: MIT
- Home: http://code.google.com/p/taucs/
SuperLU
- License: BSD
- Home: http://crd.lbl.gov/~xiaoye/SuperLU/
Eigen
- License: LGPL
- Home: http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
MUMPS
- License:
- http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/MUMPS/
- Requires
- BLAS
Boost Numeric Bindings
- License: seems to be BSD (but links to MUMPS, UMFPack, so better check with them directly)
- http://mathema.tician.de/software/boost-bindings
ARPACK++
- To solve eigen value problems
- License: ??
- http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~chico/arpack++/
clapack
- Dashboard: http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=CLAPACK
- License:
- Source code release: http://www.netlib.org/clapack/clapack-3.2.1-CMAKE.tgz
- Home page: https://icl.eecs.utk.edu/
- Repository: https://icl.eecs.utk.edu/svn/lapack-dev/clapack/trunk
- Closed to the public ??
