Proposals:Sparse Linear Solvers

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		C + FORTRAN			Yes

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 ??

PLASMA

• Home Page: http://icl.cs.utk.edu/plasma/index.html
• License: BSD