[ale] Using giant matrix in Matlab

Rev. Johnny Healey rev.null at gmail.com
Mon Nov 23 10:56:42 EST 2009


Is this a sparse matrix or a dense matrix?

-Johnny

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Omar Chanouha <ofosho at gatech.edu> wrote:
> A friend of mine is trying to use matlab for some statistics research.
> The issue is that he needs to make an 8 dimensional matrix that
> contains 22,267^8 elements, and he keeps running out of memory for
> obvious reasons. Has anyone else had to deal with giagantic data
> structures of this nature? A non-matlab solution is definitley
> acceptable. I was thinking that he could put the matrix into SQL
> tables on another server and query the server for the data as he needs
> it. That is just a shot in the dark though.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -O
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