conjugate gradient minimization

[Uwe Schmitt]

henk_derudder[nospam]@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:44:46 +0300, Markus O Kaukonen
> <markus.kaukonen at iki.fi> wrote:

>>Hei kaikki,
>>
>>Has anyone coded/seen conjugate gradient algorithm coded with python?

> I do not know of such an implementation, but there is a lot of
> conjugate gradient code (C or even C++) out on the web (use google to
> find it). If you use then swig (www.swig.org) to make this code
> available to Python it should get you going.

Have a look at www.netlib.org, most of the code is FORTRAN,
which can easily be compiled (Linux: use f77, Windows: f2c),
wraped with C code and than wraped to python with swig.
As the interfaces are quite simple and clear your task should
make no troubles...

Greetings, Uwe


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