Looking for a 64-bit build with large memory limit



On 06/12/2007, Raymond Toy (RT/EUS) <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
> Paul Richards wrote:
> > On 05/12/2007, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >> On Dec 5, 2007 3:36 PM, Paul Richards <paul.richards at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>>> ...I think it has an 8GiB limit by default, which for what I'm trying
> >> to
> >>> solve still wasn't enough.
> >>>
> >>>> What kind of equations are they?
> >>> ...
> >>> (The crux of the equation is tri-linear interpolation between 8 vectors.)
> >>>
> >> So you're generating the 3 equations and calling solve, and it is running
> >> out of memory?  I would suspect an infinite loop/recursion, and would not
> >> expect that more memory would help.  What's more, I'd expect the solution,
> >> if it exists in closed form, to be enormous.  What would you do with it?
> >>
> >
> > I'd search for Maxima's "export expression to C code" function; then
> > paste it into my program and see if it's any faster than the numerical
> > solver I implemented as a stop gap while waiting on finding a closed
> > form solution..
>
[snip stuff about the exported expression being a bit hopeless]


>
> >
> > To be honest the numerical solver I have is accurate and fast enough
> > already.  Though, I'm still curious to see if a closed form solution
> > exists and would be faster...
>
> Surely there are more important things to do than make your already fast
> enough numerical solver even faster. :-)
>

Of course!  :)



-- 
Paul Richards