MATPOWER / MATPOWER/mips

Add MUMPS as linear solver option to mplinsolve()

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Description

Moved here from MATPOWER/matpower#108 by @rwl ...

MUMPS might be a good candidate for a new linear solver option in mplinsol. Benchmarking would be required, but its support for parallelism may make it a good alternative to PARDISO when solving large systems, but without the license restrictions.

It includes a MATLAB/Octave interface. While this doesn't work with MPI-based distributed memory parallelism, it does support shared memory, multithreaded parallelism through OpenMP and multithreaded BLAS implementations.

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Research direction

Start by locating mplinsolve() and the mplinsol solver-option handling. Read the MUMPS MATLAB/Octave interface documentation and compare its behavior with the existing PARDISO option. Done means MUMPS is available as a solver option and benchmarking shows how it performs for large systems.

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Assessment

Tech stack
matlab
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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