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Read sparse matrix in Harwell-Boeing Exchange Format

asked 2013-03-06 17:06:33 +0100

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I'm currently creating some really large matrices, and hope they will end up reasonably sparse. I would like to toy with them in sage some day. Looking for a suitable standardized storage format, I just learned about the Harwell-Boeing Exchange Format. Is there some functionality provided by sage to read such files?

If not, should I rather read the file and construct a matrix from it using a standard matrix constructor, or should I create my own matrix subclass whith an internal format that closely resembles the file format?

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Perhaps you could try the Matrix Market format, it is described in the link you posted. You can [read](http://www.scipy.org/doc/api_docs/SciPy.io.mmio.html) this format using scipy, which ships with sage.

fidbc gravatar imagefidbc ( 2013-03-06 21:24:50 +0100 )edit

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answered 2013-03-08 14:11:40 +0100

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Actually it seems that scipy provides basic support for this format starting in version 0.10.0. According to fidelbc's comment, scipy already ships with sage. So I'd tentatively answer "yes", although I haven't tried it.

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