HB_READ
Simplified Harwell-Boeing Sparse Matrix File Reader


HB_READ is a FORTRAN77 library which reads files in the Harwell Boeing (HB) sparse matrix format. This is a simplified interface intended to handle only the most common format, complex unsymmetric assembled (CUA) or real unsymmetric assembled (RUA).

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

HB_READ is available in a FORTRAN77 version and a FORTRAN90 version.

Related Data and Programs:

DLAP_IO, a FORTRAN77 library which reads and writes matrices in a variety of formats, and includes a routine for reading matrices in HB format.

HB, a dataset directory which contains a collection of sparse matrices in the HB format.

HB_IO, a FORTRAN90 library which reads and writes sparse linear systems stored in the Harwell Boeing (HB) format for sparse matrices. This library is intended to handle the full range of HB formats.

HB_TO_MSM, a MATLAB program which reads an HB file and converts the matrix to MATLAB's sparse matrix format.

HB_TO_ST, a FORTRAN77 program which converts the sparse matrix information stored in a Harwell-Boeing file into a sparse triplet file.

HBSMC, a dataset directory which contains the Harwell Boeing Sparse Matrix Collection;

LINPLUS, a FORTRAN77 library which contains some routines to manipulate matrices stored in the HB sparse matrix format.

MM_IO, a FORTRAN77 library which reads and writes matrices in the Matrix Market format.

MSM_TO_HB, a MATLAB program which takes a matrix in MATLAB's sparse matrix format and writes it out in the HB format.

ST_IO, a FORTRAN77 library which reads and writes sparse linear systems stored in the Sparse Triplet (ST) format.

SUPERLU, FORTRAN77 programs which illustrate how to use the SUPERLU library, which applies a fast direct solution method to solve sparse linear systems, by James Demmel, John Gilbert, and Xiaoye Li.

Reference:

  1. Iain Duff, Roger Grimes, John Lewis,
    User's Guide for the Harwell-Boeing Sparse Matrix Collection,
    Technical Report TR/PA/92/86, CERFACS,
    October 1992.
  2. Iain Duff, Roger Grimes, John Lewis,
    The Rutherford-Boeing Sparse Matrix Collection,
    Technical Report RAL-TR-97-031,
    Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 1997.
  3. Iain Duff, Roger Grimes, John Lewis,
    Sparse Matrix Test Problems,
    ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
    Volume 15, pages 1-14, March 1989.
  4. http://math.nist.gov/MatrixMarket/data/Harwell-Boeing/ the Harwell-Boeing area of the MatrixMarket web site.

Source Code:

Examples and Tests:

Various Harwell-Boeing matrices used by the tests include:

List of Routines:

You can go up one level to the FORTRAN77 source codes.


Last revised on 19 February 2014.