eigs using SuiteSparse

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Boaz Ilan <bilan at ucmerced.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I need to use 'eigs' (sparse eigenvalue solver), preferably the one from
> SuiteSparse, which I reckon is the fastest.
>

Which SuiteSparse package provides a sparse eigenvalue solver? I
thought there was no such one.


> I am using a Mac G5/Tiger with Xcode 2.5 (gcc-4.0).
> fink is configured to build from source using stable and unstable trees.
>
> I used fink to compile octave 3.0.2. octave-atlas and suitesparse
> 3.1.0-1
> got installed during the installing octave. I thought that was all
> that is
> needed to have an 'eigs' command in octave, but there isn't one.
>
> I also tried compiling ARPACK from sourceforge, but could not get 'make'
> to work at all. My compilation know-how is obviously poor...
>

I think the license of ARPACK doesn't allow it to be distributed with Octave.




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