Merge pull request #324 from TLCFEM/master

Add numba, pardiso
robbievanleeuwen · Oct 11, 2023 · 3988e6e · 3988e6e
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diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst
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     pip install sectionproperties
 
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+Installing ``PARDISO`` Solver
+-----------------------------
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+The default sparse solver used in ``scipy`` is ``SuperLU``.
+It performs okay for small matrices but appears to be very slow for larger matrices.
+The ``PARDISO`` solver is a much faster alternative (see `pypadiso <https://github.com/haasad/PyPardisoProject>`_), but it requires the installation of the ``MKL`` library, which takes a lot of disk space.
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+If you do not have a disk space constraint, you can use the ``PARDISO`` solver by:
+
+.. code-block:: shell
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+    pip install sectionproperties[pardiso]
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 Installing CAD Modules
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