Certainly Matlab uses UMFPACK, but in Power Systems KLU has shown better performance:
Davis, T. A., & Palamadai Natarajan, E. (2010). Algorithm 907: KLU, a direct sparse solver for circuit simulation problems. *ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)*, *37*(3), 36. Milano, F. (2013, July). A python-based software tool for power system analysis. In *Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES), 2013 IEEE* (pp. 1-5). IEEE. Davis, T. A., & Natarajan, E. P. (2012). Sparse matrix methods for circuit simulation problems. In *Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering SCEE 2010* (pp. 3-14). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2014/1/17 Abhyankar, Shrirang G. <[email protected]> > Matlab's '\' solver uses UMFPACK which is a part of the SuiteSparse > package. Are you planning on using some other solver package from > SuiteSparse? > > Shri > > From: Uriel Fernando Sandoval Pérez <[email protected]> > Reply-To: MATPOWER discussion forum <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:23:00 -0600 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Git repository > > Dear Zimmerman, > > Is it possible to have a git repository at github like with pypower ( > https://github.com/rwl/PYPOWER)? > I've the idea to include SuiteSparse for a better performance solving Ax = > b > > Regards > > Uriel >
