On Friday, April 9, 2010, Leo Maloney <leo.b.malo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My Matrix consists of zeros ones, and -1/9s, so I was intially
> computing it over Q.  I'm trying to re-run the program over R in hopes
> that it will use approximations rather than try to explicitly state
> the fractions.  I am using a Macintosh OSX with 4 gigs of ram, it
> seems that this should be sufficient.

Definitely try doing it with a dense matrix over QQ too; it might be
possible, though the answer will be big.   If you provide me the
matrix I could try on my 128gb computer...  I also know the matrix
inversion code over QQ well, since I wrote some of it.


>
> On Apr 9, 11:03 am, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu>
> wrote:
>> On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Leo Maloney wrote:
>>
>> > I'm trying to compute the inverse of a 5000 x 5000 sparse matrix.
>>
>> What is the basering?
>>
>> > I'm getting an EOF error after it runs for about 5 hours, and then it
>> > states that sage is trying to access unallocated memory.  Is there a
>> > way I can increase the memory for this computation?  Every time I
>> > Google it, all I can find is the benefits sage(plant) has on memory.
>>
>> What operating system are you on. Are you using Sage in a VM (on
>> Windows)? If so, you can increase the amount of memory allocated to
>> the virtual machine. Otherwise, have you checked to see if you even
>> have any memory left on your computer when doing the computation?
>> (Perhaps the only way to increase the memory is to buy more RAM or run
>> it on a different computer.)
>>
>> - Robert
>
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