It is almost certain that starting with an inversion is a serious error. 

Are you sure you don't want a matrix solver instead?

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> On Oct 3, 2015, at 20:09, go canal <goca...@yahoo.com.INVALID> wrote:
> 
> oh, it is so unfortunate that the first step of my project requires the 
> inversion of a very large matrix. will have to revert back to scalapack or MR 
> based solutions I guess.
>  thanks, canal 
> 
> 
>     On Saturday, October 3, 2015 11:31 PM, Ted Dunning 
> <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> I doubt seriously that Samsara will support matrix inversion per se. The
> problem is
> 
> a) it densifies sparse matrices
> 
> b) it is much more costly than solving a linear system
> 
> Samsara is roughly memory based, but different back-ends will try to spill
> to disk if necessary.  It is likely that the resulting degradation in
> performance would be dramatic and thus unacceptable to most users.
> 
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:47 PM, go canal <goca...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>> HiI saw some distributed matrix functions included in Samsara now.
>> Wondering if we have a plan to support matrix inversion ?BTW, am I correct
>> that it is distributed memory based, not out-of-core ? thanks, canal
> 
> 

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