scikit-umfpack

scikit-umfpack provides a wrapper of UMFPACK sparse direct solver 1, 2, 3 to SciPy.

Usage:

>>> from scikits import umfpack
>>> lu = umfpack.splu(A)
>>> x = umfpack.spsolve(A, b)

Installing scikits.umfpack also enables using UMFPACK solver via some of the scipy.sparse.linalg functions, for SciPy >= 0.14.0.

You can obtain scikit-umfpack from

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/scikit-umfpack (releases)

• https://github.com/scikit-umfpack/scikit-umfpack (development version)

Contents:

• Installation
• Easy-to-use UMFPACK interface
• Low-level interface to UMFPACK
• Development
• Release Tasks

References

1

T. A. Davis, Algorithm 832: UMFPACK - an unsymmetric-pattern multifrontal method with a column pre-ordering strategy, ACM Trans. on Mathematical Software, 30(2), 2004, pp. 196–199. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/992200.992206

2

P. Amestoy, T. A. Davis, and I. S. Duff, Algorithm 837: An approximate minimum degree ordering algorithm, ACM Trans. on Mathematical Software, 30(3), 2004, pp. 381–388. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1024074.1024081

3

T. A. Davis, J. R. Gilbert, S. Larimore, E. Ng, Algorithm 836: COLAMD, an approximate column minimum degree ordering algorithm, ACM Trans. on Mathematical Software, 30(3), 2004, pp. 377–380. https://doi.org/10.1145/1024074.1024080