lAPACK

[ahmed baba]

HI Every one 

i have sparse symmetric linear system to solve  , for what i want to use lapack, 

is it correct to store the matrix in dense format and then solve the system by using lapack routine. 

thanks.

[Martin]

Yes, to use LAPACK routines in CVXOPT, you will need to work with dense matrices (cvxopt.matrix) and not sparse matrices (cvxopt.spmatrix). Note that CVXOPT also comes with an interface to Cholmod which can be used to solve sparse symmetric systems of linear equations.