Tag Archives: SciPy

Installing PyPardiso and speed of Scipy spsolve

Posted on 12/06/2022 by dougaj4

I recently upgraded to Python 3.10, and because of some problems with my previous installation I decided to do a complete new installation using pip, which required installation of all the libraries needed for my various programs. For my linear … Continue reading →

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Listing Python modules and getting help docs from Excel

Posted on 12/05/2022 by dougaj4

Python functions include detailed help documentation but to access this you need the full path to the function, including the names of all code modules and submodules. This post looks at how this information can be found using Excel with … Continue reading →

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Installing PyPardiso

Posted on 24/10/2021 by dougaj4

Update 5th June 2022: The PyPardiso package may now be installed simply with pip (see Installing PyPardiso and speed of Scipy spsolve): Install the MKL library: pip install mkl Install PyPardiso: pip install pypardiso The PyPardiso package provides an interface to … Continue reading →

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Making Finite Element Analysis go faster – Update and PyPardiso

Posted on 17/10/2021 by dougaj4

The previous post on this topic looked at the performance of alternative Scipy sparse equation solvers. This post updates those results with the current Scipy version (1.7.1), with very different results. It also compares the Scipy solver performance with the … Continue reading →

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Making Finite Element Analysis go faster …

Posted on 27/06/2021 by dougaj4

… with Numba and Scipy sparse matrix functions. As promised in the previous post in this series, I will be looking at speeding up the formation and solving of matrix functions for the analysis of structural frames, using Excel and … Continue reading →

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