[boost] Re: uBlas and linear algebra questions

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-20 19:25:23

Kirill Lapshin <kir_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> I'm trying to get a grip on what facilities are available for doing
>> linear algebra with uBlas, but I can't seem to find any good
>> information.  I'm interested in such things as:
>>   LU factorization
>>   Cholesky factorization
>>   Gaussian Elimination
>>   Ordinary Least Squares Regression
>>   ...etc...
>> Can somebody help me out?
>
> uBlas does not provide such high level algorithms. You can try to use
> lapack bindings (available in files section of ublas mail list). The
> bindings are still work in progress, subject to change, and they wrap
> only very limited subset of lapack algos.

Ah, I understand.  It seems as though the choices for linear algebra
in C++ haven't improved much since I first started looking at them
several years ago.

> I don't have hands on experience with lapack bindings, but I am
> going to try them very soon. Also I would suggest to post questions
> on ublas ml.

Well, that's disturbing!  http://tinyurl.com/hinz plainly says:

    Mailing lists
    -------------

    uBLAS has no dedicated mailing list. Feel free to use the mailing
    lists of Boost .

What's the address of the mailing list?  0_at_[hidden]?  That's
the only other thing I can find in your posting's header.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com