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  • Matrix group: GHS_psdef
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  • Matrix: GHS_psdef/ford2
  • Description: Gould, Hu, & Scott: car surface mesh, from Pothen & Kumfert
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    GHS_psdef/ford2

    GHS_psdef/ford2 graph

    Matrix properties
    number of rows100,196
    number of columns100,196
    nonzeros544,688
    structural full rank?yes
    structural rank100,196
    # of blocks from dmperm1
    # strongly connected comp.1
    entries not in dmperm blocks0
    explicit zero entries0
    nonzero pattern symmetrysymmetric
    numeric value symmetrysymmetric
    typebinary
    structuresymmetric
    Cholesky candidate?yes
    positive definite?no

    authorG. Kumfert, A. Pothen
    editorN. Gould, Y. Hu, J. Scott
    date2004
    kindstructural problem
    2D/3D problem?yes

    Ordering statistics:AMD METIS
    nnz(chol(P*(A+A'+s*I)*P'))2,378,217 2,446,644
    Cholesky flop count2.9e+08 2.6e+08
    nnz(L+U), no partial pivoting4,656,238 4,793,092
    nnz(V) for QR, upper bound nnz(L) for LU6,147,771 4,919,265
    nnz(R) for QR, upper bound nnz(U) for LU11,610,612 9,227,969

    Maintained by Tim Davis, last updated 04-May-2008.
    Matrix pictures by cspy, a MATLAB function in the CSparse package.
    Matrix graphs by Yifan Hu, AT&T Labs Visualization Group.