SSGETPY: Search and download sparse matrices from the SuiteSparse Matrix Collection

ssgetpy is a little Python library and command-line program to search, filter and download matrices from the SuiteSparse Matrix Collection similar to the existing Java and MATLAB tools.

The index of matrices is created from the same CSV file used by the Java interface. However, the index in cached in a local SQLite database to make querying it more convenient.

Requirements and installation

ssgetpy works with Python 3.6 or above. Besides the standard library, it depends on requests and tqdm. Since ssgetpy doesn't actually parse matrix data, it doesn't require dependencies like NumPy or SciPy.

To install, simply run:

pip install ssgetpy

This will install the ssgetpy Python module as well as a ssgetpy command-line script.

From Python, run import ssgetpy and type help(ssgetpy) to get a detailed help message on how to use ssgetpy to search and download sparse matrices.

From the command-line, run ssgetpy or ssgetpy --help to see the list of options.

Examples

Make sure you first run from ssgetpy import search, fetch. Replace fetch with search to only return the corresponding Matrix objects without downloading them.

• Download matrix with ID 42 in the MatrixMarket format: fetch(42)
• Download matrices in the Harwell-Boeing collection with less than 1000 non-zeros: fetch(group = 'HB', nzbounds = (None, 1000))
• Download only the first 5 problems arising from structural analysis: fetch(kind = "structural", limit = 5)
• Download the problems in the previous example as MATLAB .MAT files: fetch(kind = "structural", format = "MAT", limit = 5)

For more examples, please see the accompanying Jupyter notebook.

License

ssgetpy is licensed under the MIT/X11 license:

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