Hello all, Big thanks to Tim Holy and Andreas Noack. The FE solver implemented in Julia as described previously (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/julia-users/Krysl/julia-users/dgNqrJBZx5U/oGeXMZFjToMJ) has been further optimized with their helpful hints and pointers. The comparison problem now runs in around 9.6 seconds, compared to 16 seconds solve phase achieved with the commercial FEA software .
Not bad, Julia! Petr
