Resources
- Ian Mitchell maintains a
MATLAB resources page in UBC CS.
- For efficient dense linear algebra routines, BLAS has a home at netlib,
as does LAPACK. An optimized version installed on the cs-grad Linux machines
is ATLAS (which can also be installed on a number of different platforms).
The current speed-king is the GOTO BLAS however.
Vendors such as Apple, Intel, AMD and Sun supply their own versions too.
- FFTW is an optimized implementation of the Fast Fourier Transform, installed on
the cs-grad Linux machines and available on many different platforms. Vendors supply their own.
- Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems:
Building Blocks for Iterative Methods is a great free book about solving large and sparse linear systems.
- Numerical Recipes is a popular book with some free web versions and code. It isn't
exactly up-to-date, and has its own bias, but there's useful stuff in there.
- Eric Weisstein's World of Science at Wolfram
is sometimes helpful for looking up facts, tables (e.g. inertia tensors), etc...
From Class
- polynomial_interpolation.m: the little MATLAB function from
Sept. 10's lecture. This does polynomial interpolation in 1D.
- rbf_r2.m: testing what happens with the r^2 kernel for RBF interpolation, from
Sept. 22's lecture. Check out rank(A) to verify the problem.
- modelsd.m: code for testing the convergence of steepest descent on a model
quadratic problem, using ideal line search.