cg_rc


cg_rc, a Python code which implements the conjugate gradient (CG) method for solving a positive definite sparse linear system A*x=b, using reverse communication (RC).

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

cg_rc is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

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Reference:

  1. Richard Barrett, Michael Berry, Tony Chan, James Demmel, June Donato, Jack Dongarra, Victor Eijkhout, Roidan Pozo, Charles Romine, Henk van der Vorst,
    Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems: Building Blocks for Iterative Methods,
    SIAM, 1994,
    ISBN: 0898714710,
    LC: QA297.8.T45.
  2. Jonathan Shewchuk,
    An introduction to the conjugate gradient method without the agonizing pain, Edition 1.25, August 1994.

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Last revised on 20 January 2020.