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\author{Timothy A. Davis \\
Dept. of Computer and Information Science and Engineering \\
Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL}
\title{UMFPACK Version 4.4 Quick Start Guide}
\date{Jan. 28, 2005}
\maketitle

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\begin{abstract}
    UMFPACK is a set of routines for solving unsymmetric sparse linear
    systems, $\m{Ax}=\m{b}$, using the Unsymmetric-pattern MultiFrontal method
    and direct sparse LU factorization.  It is written in ANSI/ISO C, with a
    MATLAB interface.  UMFPACK relies on the Level-3
    Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (dense matrix multiply) for its
    performance.  This code works on Windows and many versions of Unix (Sun
    Solaris, Red Hat Linux, IBM AIX, SGI IRIX, and Compaq Alpha).
    This is a ``quick start'' guide for Unix users of the C interface.
\end{abstract}
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UMFPACK Version 4.4 (Jan. 28, 2005), Copyright\copyright 2005 by Timothy A.
Davis.  All Rights Reserved.  Refer to the UMFPACK User Guide
for the License. See \newline
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/umfpack
for the code and full documentation.

%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\section{Overview}
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

UMFPACK is a set of routines for solving systems of linear
equations, $\m{Ax}=\m{b}$, when $\m{A}$ is sparse and unsymmetric.
The sparse matrix $\m{A}$ can be square or rectangular, singular
or non-singular, and real or complex (or any combination).  Only square
matrices $\m{A}$ can be used to solve $\m{Ax}=\m{b}$ or related systems.
Rectangular matrices can only be factorized.

UMFPACK Version 4.3 is a built-in routine in MATLAB 7.1, used by the forward and
backslash operator, and the {\tt lu} routine.  MATLAB 6.5 used Version 4.0.
The following is a short
introduction to Unix users of the C interface of UMFPACK.

%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The C-callable UMFPACK library consists of 32 user-callable routines and one
include file.  Twenty-eight of the routines come in four versions, with
different sizes of integers and for real or complex floating-point numbers.
This Quick Start Guide assumes you are working with real matrices
(not complex) and with {\tt int}'s as integers (not {\tt long}'s).
Refer to the User Guide for information about the complex and
long integer versions.  The include file {\tt umfpack.h}
must be included in any C program that uses UMFPACK.

For more details, see:
{\em A column pre-ordering strategy for the unsymmetric-pattern multifrontal method},
Davis, T. A.,
ACM Trans. Math. Software, vol 30. no 2, 2004, pp. 165-195, and
{\em Algorithm 832:  {UMFPACK}, an unsymmetric-pattern multifrontal method},
same issue, pp. 196-199.

%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\section{Primary routines, and a simple example}
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Five primary UMFPACK routines are required to factorize $\m{A}$ or
solve $\m{Ax}=\m{b}$.  An overview of the primary features of the routines
is given in Section~\ref{Primary}.
Additional routines are available for passing a different column ordering
to UMFPACK, changing default parameters, manipulating sparse matrices,
getting the LU factors, save and loading the LU factors from a file,
computing the determinant,
and reporting results.  See the User Guide for more information.

\begin{itemize}
\item {\tt umfpack\_di\_symbolic}:

    Pre-orders the columns of $\m{A}$ to reduce fill-in and performs a
    symbolic analysis.
    Returns an opaque {\tt Symbolic} object as a {\tt void *}
    pointer.  The object contains the symbolic analysis and is needed for the
    numerical factorization.

\item {\tt umfpack\_di\_numeric}:

    Numerically scales and then factorizes a sparse matrix
    $\m{PAQ}$, $\m{PRAQ}$, or $\m{PR}^{-1}\m{AQ}$ into the product $\m{LU}$,
    where
    $\m{P}$ and $\m{Q}$ are permutation matrices, $\m{R}$ is a diagonal
    matrix of scale factors, $\m{L}$ is lower triangular with unit diagonal,
    and $\m{U}$ is upper triangular.  Requires the
    symbolic ordering and analysis computed by {\tt umfpack\_di\_symbolic}.
    Returns an opaque {\tt Numeric} object as a
    {\tt void *} pointer.  The object contains the numerical factorization and
    is used by {\tt umfpack\_di\_solve}.

\item {\tt umfpack\_di\_solve}:

    Solves a sparse linear system ($\m{Ax}=\m{b}$, $\m{A}\tr\m{x}=\m{b}$, or
    systems involving just $\m{L}$ or $\m{U}$), using the numeric factorization
    computed by {\tt umfpack\_di\_numeric}.

\item {\tt umfpack\_di\_free\_symbolic}:

    Frees the {\tt Symbolic} object created by {\tt umfpack\_di\_symbolic}.

\item {\tt umfpack\_di\_free\_numeric}:

    Frees the {\tt Numeric} object created by {\tt umfpack\_di\_numeric}.

\end{itemize}

The matrix $\m{A}$ is represented in compressed column form, which is
identical to the sparse matrix representation used by MATLAB.  It consists
of three arrays, where the matrix is {\tt m}-by-{\tt n},
with {\tt nz} entries:

{\footnotesize
\begin{verbatim}
     int Ap [n+1] ;
     int Ai [nz] ;
     double Ax [nz] ;
\end{verbatim}
}

All nonzeros are entries, but an entry may be numerically zero.  The row indices
of entries in column {\tt j} are stored in
    {\tt Ai[Ap[j]} ... {\tt Ap[j+1]-1]}.
The corresponding numerical values are stored in
    {\tt Ax[Ap[j]} ... {\tt Ap[j+1]-1]}.

No duplicate row indices may be present, and the row indices in any given
column must be sorted in ascending order.  The first entry {\tt Ap[0]} must be
zero.  The total number of entries in the matrix is thus {\tt nz = Ap[n]}.
Except for the fact that extra zero entries can be included, there is thus a
unique compressed column representation of any given matrix $\m{A}$.

Here is a simple main program, {\tt umfpack\_simple.c}, that illustrates the
basic usage of UMFPACK.

{\footnotesize
\begin{verbatim}
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include "umfpack.h"

    int    n = 5 ;
    int    Ap [ ] = {0, 2, 5, 9, 10, 12} ;
    int    Ai [ ] = { 0,  1,  0,   2,  4,  1,  2,  3,   4,  2,  1,  4} ;
    double Ax [ ] = {2., 3., 3., -1., 4., 4., -3., 1., 2., 2., 6., 1.} ;
    double b [ ] = {8., 45., -3., 3., 19.} ;
    double x [5] ;

    int main (void)
    {
        double *null = (double *) NULL ;
        int i ;
        void *Symbolic, *Numeric ;
        (void) umfpack_di_symbolic (n, n, Ap, Ai, Ax, &Symbolic, null, null) ;
        (void) umfpack_di_numeric (Ap, Ai, Ax, Symbolic, &Numeric, null, null) ;
        umfpack_di_free_symbolic (&Symbolic) ;
        (void) umfpack_di_solve (UMFPACK_A, Ap, Ai, Ax, x, b, Numeric, null, null) ;
        umfpack_di_free_numeric (&Numeric) ;
        for (i = 0 ; i < n ; i++) printf ("x [%d] = %g\n", i, x [i]) ;
        return (0) ;
    }
\end{verbatim}
}

The {\tt Ap}, {\tt Ai}, and {\tt Ax} arrays represent the matrix
\[
\m{A} = \left[
\begin{array}{rrrrr}
 2 &  3 &  0 &  0 &  0 \\
 3 &  0 &  4 &  0 &  6 \\
 0 & -1 & -3 &  2 &  0 \\
 0 &  0 &  1 &  0 &  0 \\
 0 &  4 &  2 &  0 &  1 \\
\end{array}
\right].
\]
and the solution is $\m{x} = [1 \, 2 \, 3 \, 4 \, 5]\tr$.  The program uses
default control settings and does not return any statistics about the ordering,
factorization, or solution ({\tt Control} and {\tt Info} are both
{\tt (double *) NULL}).

For routines to manipulate a simpler ``triplet-form'' data structure for your
sparse matrix $\m{A}$, refer to the UMFPACK User Guide.

%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\section{Synopsis of primary C-callable routines}
\label{Synopsis}
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The matrix $\m{A}$ is {\tt m}-by-{\tt n} with {\tt nz} entries.
The optional {\tt umfpack\_di\_defaults} routine loads the default control
parameters into the {\tt Control} array.  The settings can then be modified
before passing the array to the other routines.  Refer to Section~\ref{Primary}
for more details.

{\footnotesize
\begin{verbatim}
    #include "umfpack.h"
    int status, sys, n, m, nz, Ap [n+1], Ai [nz] ;
    double Control [UMFPACK_CONTROL], Info [UMFPACK_INFO], Ax [nz], X [n], B [n] ;
    void *Symbolic, *Numeric ;

    status = umfpack_di_symbolic (m, n, Ap, Ai, Ax, &Symbolic, Control, Info) ;
    status = umfpack_di_numeric (Ap, Ai, Ax, Symbolic, &Numeric, Control, Info) ;
    status = umfpack_di_solve (sys, Ap, Ai, Ax, X, B, Numeric, Control, Info) ;
    umfpack_di_free_symbolic (&Symbolic) ;
    umfpack_di_free_numeric (&Numeric) ;
    umfpack_di_defaults (Control) ;
\end{verbatim}
}

%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\section{Installation}
\label{Install}
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

You will need to install both UMFPACK v4.4 and AMD v1.1 (or AMD v1.0) to use UMFPACK.
The {\tt UMFPACK} and {\tt AMD} subdirectories must be placed side-by-side
within the same parent directory.  AMD is a stand-alone package that
is required by UMFPACK.  UMFPACK can be compiled without the
BLAS but your performance will be much less than what it should be.

System-dependent configurations are in the {\tt AMD/Make}
and {\tt UMFPACK/Make} directories
(Note that {\tt UMFPACK/Make} is a symbolic link to {\tt AMD/Make}).
You can edit the {\tt Make.include}
file in those directories to customize the compilation.  The default
settings will work on most systems, except that UMFPACK will be compiled so
that it does not use the BLAS.  Sample configuration files are provided
for Linux, Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX, IBM AIX, and the DEC/Compaq Alpha.

To compile and install both packages,
go to the UMFPACK directory and type {\tt make}.  This will compile the
libraries ({\tt AMD/Lib/libamd.a} and {\tt UMFPACK/Lib/libumfpack.a}).
A demo of the AMD ordering routine will be compiled and tested in
the {\tt AMD/Demo} directory, and five demo programs will then be
compiled and tested in the {\tt UMFPACK/Demo} directory.
The outputs of these demo programs will then be compared with output
files in the distribution.  Expect to see a few differences, such as
residual norms, compile-time control settings, and perhaps memory usage
differences.  The AMD and MATLAB mexFunctions for
use in MATLAB will also be compiled.  If you do not have MATLAB,
type {\tt make lib} instead.

If you compile UMFPACK and AMD and then later change the {\tt Make.include}
file or your system-specific configuration file such as {\tt Make.linux},
then you should type {\tt make purge} and then {\tt make} to recompile.

Here are the various parameters that you can control in your
{\tt Make.include} file:

\begin{itemize}
\item {\tt CC = } your C compiler, such as {\tt cc}.
\item {\tt RANLIB = } your system's {\tt ranlib} program, if needed.
\item {\tt CFLAGS = } optimization flags, such as {\tt -O}.
\item {\tt CONFIG = } configuration settings, for the BLAS, memory allocation
    routines, and timing routines.
\item {\tt LIB = } your libraries, such as {\tt -lm} or {\tt -lblas}.
\item {\tt RM =} the command to delete a file.
\item {\tt MV =} the command to rename a file.
\item {\tt MEX =} the command to compile a MATLAB mexFunction.
\item {\tt F77 =} the command to compile a Fortran program (optional).
\item {\tt F77FLAGS =} the Fortran compiler flags (optional).
\item {\tt F77LIB =} the Fortran libraries (optional).
\end{itemize}

The {\tt CONFIG} string can include combinations of the following;
most deal with how the BLAS are called:
\begin{itemize}
\item {\tt -DNBLAS} if you do not have any BLAS at all.
\item {\tt -DCBLAS} if you have the C-BLAS.
\item {\tt -DNSUNPERF} if you are on Solaris but do not have the Sun
    Performance Library.
\item {\tt -DNSCSL} if you on SGI IRIX but do not have the SCSL BLAS library.
\item {\tt -DLONGBLAS} if your BLAS can take {\tt long} integer input
    arguments.
\item Options for controlling how C calls the Fortran BLAS:
    {\tt -DBLAS\_BY\_VALUE}, {\tt -DBLAS\_NO\_UNDERSCORE},
    and {\tt -DBLAS\_CHAR\_ARG}.  These are set automatically for Windows,
    Sun Solaris, SGI Irix, Red Hat Linux, Compaq Alpha, and
    AIX (the IBM RS 6000).
\item {\tt -DGETRUSAGE} if you have the {\tt getrusage} function.
\item {\tt -DLP64} if you are compiling in the LP64 model (32 bit {\tt int}'s,
    64 bit {\tt long}'s, and 64 bit pointers).
\item {\tt -DNUTIL} if you wish to compile the MATLAB-callable
    UMFPACK mexFunction with the {\tt mxMalloc}, {\tt mxRealloc}
    and {\tt mxFree} routines, instead of the undocumented (but
    superior) {\tt utMalloc}, {\tt utRealloc}, and {\tt utFree}
    routines.
\item {\tt -DNPOSIX} if you do not have the POSIX-compliant
    {\tt sysconf} and {\tt times} routines.
\item {\tt -DNRECIPROCAL} controls a trade-off between speed and accuracy.
    This is off by default (speed preferred over accuracy) except when
    compiling for MATLAB.
\end{itemize}

When you compile your program that uses the C-callable UMFPACK library,
you need to add the both {\tt UMFPACK/Lib/libumfpack.a} and
{\tt AMD/Lib/libamd.a}
libraries, and you need to tell your compiler to look in the
directories {\tt UMFPACK/Include} and {\tt AMD/Include} for include
files.  See {\tt UMFPACK/Demo/Makefile} for an example.
You do not need to directly include any AMD include files in your
program, unless you directly call AMD routines.  You only need the
\begin{verbatim}
#include "umfpack.h"
\end{verbatim}
statement, as described in Section~\ref{Synopsis}.

%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\newpage
\section{The primary UMFPACK routines}
\label{Primary}
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\subsection{umfpack\_di\_symbolic}

{\footnotesize
\begin{verbatim}
int umfpack_di_symbolic
(
    int n_row,
    int n_col,
    const int Ap [ ],
    const int Ai [ ],
    const double Ax [ ],
    void **Symbolic,
    const double Control [UMFPACK_CONTROL],
    double Info [UMFPACK_INFO]
) ;

Purpose:

    Given nonzero pattern of a sparse matrix A in column-oriented form,
    umfpack_di_symbolic performs a column pre-ordering to reduce fill-in
    (using COLAMD or AMD) and a symbolic factorization.  This is required
    before the matrix can be numerically factorized with umfpack_di_numeric.

    For the following discussion, let S be the submatrix of A obtained after
    eliminating all pivots of zero Markowitz cost.  S has dimension
    (n_row-n1-nempty_row) -by- (n_col-n1-nempty_col), where
    n1 = Info [UMFPACK_COL_SINGLETONS] + Info [UMFPACK_ROW_SINGLETONS],
    nempty_row = Info [UMFPACK_NEMPTY_ROW] and
    nempty_col = Info [UMFPACK_NEMPTY_COL].

Returns:

    The status code is returned.  See Info [UMFPACK_STATUS], below.

Arguments:

    Int n_row ;         Input argument, not modified.
    Int n_col ;         Input argument, not modified.

        A is an n_row-by-n_col matrix.  Restriction: n_row > 0 and n_col > 0.

    Int Ap [n_col+1] ;  Input argument, not modified.

        Ap is an integer array of size n_col+1.  On input, it holds the
        "pointers" for the column form of the sparse matrix A.  Column j of
        the matrix A is held in Ai [(Ap [j]) ... (Ap [j+1]-1)].  The first
        entry, Ap [0], must be zero, and Ap [j] <= Ap [j+1] must hold for all
        j in the range 0 to n_col-1.  The value nz = Ap [n_col] is thus the
        total number of entries in the pattern of the matrix A.  nz must be
        greater than or equal to zero.

    Int Ai [nz] ;       Input argument, not modified, of size nz = Ap [n_col].

        The nonzero pattern (row indices) for column j is stored in
        Ai [(Ap [j]) ... (Ap [j+1]-1)].  The row indices in a given column j
        must be in ascending order, and no duplicate row indices may be present.
        Row indices must be in the range 0 to n_row-1 (the matrix is 0-based).

    double Ax [nz] ;    Optional input argument, not modified.

        The numerical values of the sparse matrix A.  The nonzero pattern (row
        indices) for column j is stored in Ai [(Ap [j]) ... (Ap [j+1]-1)], and
        the corresponding numerical values are stored in
        Ax [(Ap [j]) ... (Ap [j+1]-1)].  Used only by the 2-by-2 strategy to
        determine whether entries are "large" or "small".  You do not have to
        pass the same numerical values to umfpack_di_numeric.  If Ax is not
        present (a (double *) NULL pointer), then any entry in A is assumed to
        be "large".

    void **Symbolic ;   Output argument.

        **Symbolic is the address of a (void *) pointer variable in the user's
        calling routine (see Syntax, above).  On input, the contents of this
        variable are not defined.  On output, this variable holds a (void *)
        pointer to the Symbolic object (if successful), or (void *) NULL if
        a failure occurred.

    double Control [UMFPACK_CONTROL] ;  Input argument, not modified.

        If a (double *) NULL pointer is passed, then the default control
        settings are used.  Only the primary parameters are listed below:

        Control [UMFPACK_STRATEGY]:  This is the most important control
            parameter.  It determines what kind of ordering and pivoting
            strategy that UMFPACK should use.  It is new to Version 4.1
            There are 4 options:

            UMFPACK_STRATEGY_AUTO:  This is the default.  The input matrix is
                analyzed to determine how symmetric the nonzero pattern is, and
                how many entries there are on the diagonal.  It then selects one
                of the following strategies.  Refer to the User Guide for a
                description of how the strategy is automatically selected.

            UMFPACK_STRATEGY_UNSYMMETRIC:  Use the unsymmetric strategy.  COLAMD
                is used to order the columns of A, followed by a postorder of
                the column elimination tree.  No attempt is made to perform
                diagonal pivoting.  The column ordering is refined during
                factorization.  This strategy was the only one provided with
                UMFPACK V4.0.

                In the numerical factorization, the
                Control [UMFPACK_SYM_PIVOT_TOLERANCE] parameter is ignored.  A
                pivot is selected if its magnitude is >=
                Control [UMFPACK_PIVOT_TOLERANCE] (default 0.1) times the
                largest entry in its column.

            UMFPACK_STRATEGY_SYMMETRIC:  Use the symmetric strategy (new to
                Version 4.1).  In this method, the approximate minimum degree
                ordering (AMD) is applied to A+A', followed by a postorder of
                the elimination tree of A+A'.  UMFPACK attempts to perform
                diagonal pivoting during numerical factorization.  No refinement
                of the column preordering is performed during factorization.

                In the numerical factorization, a nonzero entry on the diagonal
                is selected as the pivot if its magnitude is >= Control
                [UMFPACK_SYM_PIVOT_TOLERANCE] (default 0.001) times the largest
                entry in its column.  If this is not acceptable, then an
                off-diagonal pivot is selected with magnitude >= Control
                [UMFPACK_PIVOT_TOLERANCE] (default 0.1) times the largest entry
                in its column.

            UMFPACK_STRATEGY_2BY2:  a row permutation P2 is found that places
                large entries on the diagonal.  The matrix P2*A is then
                factorized using the symmetric strategy, described above.
                Refer to the User Guide for more information.

        Control [UMFPACK_2BY2_TOLERANCE]:  a diagonal entry S (k,k) is
            considered "small" if it is < tol * max (abs (S (:,k))), where S a
            submatrix of the scaled input matrix, with pivots of zero Markowitz
            cost removed.

        Control [UMFPACK_SCALE]:  This parameter is new to V4.1.  See
            umfpack_numeric.h for a description.  Only affects the 2-by-2
            strategy.  Default: UMFPACK_SCALE_SUM.

    double Info [UMFPACK_INFO] ;        Output argument, not defined on input.

        Contains statistics about the symbolic analysis.  If a (double *) NULL
        pointer is passed, then no statistics are returned in Info (this is not
        an error condition).  The entire Info array is cleared (all entries set
        to -1) and then the following statistics are computed (only the
        primary statistics are listed):

        Info [UMFPACK_STATUS]: status code.  This is also the return value,
            whether or not Info is present.

            UMFPACK_OK

                Each column of the input matrix contained row indices
                in increasing order, with no duplicates.  Only in this case
                does umfpack_di_symbolic compute a valid symbolic factorization.
                For the other cases below, no Symbolic object is created
                (*Symbolic is (void *) NULL).

            UMFPACK_ERROR_n_nonpositive

                n is less than or equal to zero.

            UMFPACK_ERROR_invalid_matrix

                Number of entries in the matrix is negative, Ap [0] is nonzero,
                a column has a negative number of entries, a row index is out of
                bounds, or the columns of input matrix were jumbled (unsorted
                columns or duplicate entries).

            UMFPACK_ERROR_out_of_memory

                Insufficient memory to perform the symbolic analysis.  If the
                analysis requires more than 2GB of memory and you are using
                the 32-bit ("int") version of UMFPACK, then you are guaranteed
                to run out of memory.  Try using the 64-bit version of UMFPACK.

            UMFPACK_ERROR_argument_missing

                One or more required arguments is missing.

            UMFPACK_ERROR_internal_error

                Something very serious went wrong.  This is a bug.
                Please contact the author (davis@cise.ufl.edu).

        Info [UMFPACK_SIZE_OF_UNIT]:  the number of bytes in a Unit,
            for memory usage statistics below.

        Info [UMFPACK_SYMBOLIC_PEAK_MEMORY]:  the amount of memory (in Units)
            required for umfpack_di_symbolic to complete.  This count includes
            the size of the Symbolic object itself, which is also reported in
            Info [UMFPACK_SYMBOLIC_SIZE].

        Info [UMFPACK_NUMERIC_SIZE_ESTIMATE]:  an estimate of the final size (in
            Units) of the entire Numeric object (both fixed-size and variable-
            sized parts), which holds the LU factorization (including the L, U,
            P and Q matrices).

        Info [UMFPACK_PEAK_MEMORY_ESTIMATE]:  an estimate of the total amount of
            memory (in Units) required by umfpack_di_symbolic and
            umfpack_di_numeric to perform both the symbolic and numeric
            factorization.  This is the larger of the amount of memory needed
            in umfpack_di_numeric itself, and the amount of memory needed in
            umfpack_di_symbolic (Info [UMFPACK_SYMBOLIC_PEAK_MEMORY]).  The
            count includes the size of both the Symbolic and Numeric objects
            themselves.  It can be a very loose upper bound, particularly when
            the symmetric or 2-by-2 strategies are used.

        Info [UMFPACK_FLOPS_ESTIMATE]:  an estimate of the total floating-point
            operations required to factorize the matrix.  This is a "true"
            theoretical estimate of the number of flops that would be performed
            by a flop-parsimonious sparse LU algorithm.  It assumes that no
            extra flops are performed except for what is strictly required to
            compute the LU factorization.  It ignores, for example, the flops
            performed by umfpack_di_numeric to add contribution blocks of
            frontal matrices together.  If L and U are the upper bound on the
            pattern of the factors, then this flop count estimate can be
            represented in MATLAB (for real matrices, not complex) as:

                Lnz = full (sum (spones (L))) - 1 ;     % nz in each col of L
                Unz = full (sum (spones (U')))' - 1 ;   % nz in each row of U
                flops = 2*Lnz*Unz + sum (Lnz) ;

            The actual "true flop" count found by umfpack_di_numeric will be
            less than this estimate.

        Info [UMFPACK_LNZ_ESTIMATE]:  an estimate of the number of nonzeros in
            L, including the diagonal.  Since L is unit-diagonal, the diagonal
            of L is not stored.  This estimate is a strict upper bound on the
            actual nonzeros in L to be computed by umfpack_di_numeric.

        Info [UMFPACK_UNZ_ESTIMATE]:  an estimate of the number of nonzeros in
            U, including the diagonal.  This estimate is a strict upper bound on
            the actual nonzeros in U to be computed by umfpack_di_numeric.

        Info [UMFPACK_SYMBOLIC_TIME]:  The CPU time taken, in seconds.

        Info [UMFPACK_STRATEGY_USED]: The ordering strategy used:
            UMFPACK_STRATEGY_SYMMETRIC, UMFPACK_STRATEGY_UNSYMMETRIC, or
            UMFPACK_STRATEGY_2BY2.
\end{verbatim}
}


%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\newpage
\subsection{umfpack\_di\_numeric}

{\footnotesize
\begin{verbatim}
int umfpack_di_numeric
(
    const int Ap [ ],
    const int Ai [ ],
    const double Ax [ ],
    void *Symbolic,
    void **Numeric,
    const double Control [UMFPACK_CONTROL],
    double Info [UMFPACK_INFO]
) ;

Purpose:

    Given a sparse matrix A in column-oriented form, and a symbolic analysis
    computed by umfpack_di_symbolic, the umfpack_di_numeric routine performs the
    numerical factorization, PAQ=LU, PRAQ=LU, or P(R\A)Q=LU, where P and Q are
    permutation matrices (represented as permutation vectors), R is the row
    scaling, L is unit-lower triangular, and U is upper triangular.  This is
    required before the system Ax=b (or other related linear systems) can be
    solved.  umfpack_di_numeric can be called multiple times for each call to
    umfpack_di_symbolic, to factorize a sequence of matrices with identical
    nonzero pattern.  Simply compute the Symbolic object once, with
    umfpack_di_symbolic, and reuse it for subsequent matrices.
    umfpack_di_numeric safely detects if the pattern changes, and sets an
    appropriate error code.

Returns:

    The status code is returned.  See Info [UMFPACK_STATUS], below.

Arguments:

    Int Ap [n_col+1] ;  Input argument, not modified.

        This must be identical to the Ap array passed to umfpack_di_symbolic.
        The value of n_col is what was passed to umfpack_di_symbolic (this is
        held in the Symbolic object).

    Int Ai [nz] ;       Input argument, not modified, of size nz = Ap [n_col].

        This must be identical to the Ai array passed to umfpack_di_symbolic.

    double Ax [nz] ;    Input argument, not modified, of size nz = Ap [n_col].

        The numerical values of the sparse matrix A.  The nonzero pattern (row
        indices) for column j is stored in Ai [(Ap [j]) ... (Ap [j+1]-1)], and
        the corresponding numerical values are stored in
        Ax [(Ap [j]) ... (Ap [j+1]-1)].

    void *Symbolic ;    Input argument, not modified.

        The Symbolic object, which holds the symbolic factorization computed by
        umfpack_di_symbolic.  The Symbolic object is not modified by
        umfpack_di_numeric.

    void **Numeric ;    Output argument.

        **Numeric is the address of a (void *) pointer variable in the user's
        calling routine (see Syntax, above).  On input, the contents of this
        variable are not defined.  On output, this variable holds a (void *)
        pointer to the Numeric object (if successful), or (void *) NULL if
        a failure occurred.

    double Control [UMFPACK_CONTROL] ;   Input argument, not modified.

        If a (double *) NULL pointer is passed, then the default control
        settings are used.  Only the primary parameters are listed below:

        Control [UMFPACK_PIVOT_TOLERANCE]:  relative pivot tolerance for
            threshold partial pivoting with row interchanges.  In any given
            column, an entry is numerically acceptable if its absolute value is
            greater than or equal to Control [UMFPACK_PIVOT_TOLERANCE] times
            the largest absolute value in the column.  A value of 1.0 gives true
            partial pivoting.  If less than or equal to zero, then any nonzero
            entry is numerically acceptable as a pivot (this is changed from
            Version 4.0).  Default: 0.1.

            Smaller values tend to lead to sparser LU factors, but the solution
            to the linear system can become inaccurate.  Larger values can lead
            to a more accurate solution (but not always), and usually an
            increase in the total work.

        Control [UMFPACK_SYM_PIVOT_TOLERANCE]:  This parameter is new to V4.1.
            If diagonal pivoting is attempted (the symmetric or symmetric-2by2
            strategies are used) then this parameter is used to control when the
            diagonal entry is selected in a given pivot column.  The absolute
            value of the entry must be >= Control [UMFPACK_SYM_PIVOT_TOLERANCE]
            times the largest absolute value in the column.  A value of zero
            will ensure that no off-diagonal pivoting is performed, except that
            zero diagonal entries are not selected if there are any off-diagonal
            nonzero entries.

            If an off-diagonal pivot is selected, an attempt is made to restore
            symmetry later on.  Suppose A (i,j) is selected, where i != j.
            If column i has not yet been selected as a pivot column, then
            the entry A (j,i) is redefined as a "diagonal" entry, except that
            the tighter tolerance (Control [UMFPACK_PIVOT_TOLERANCE]) is
            applied.  This strategy has an effect similar to 2-by-2 pivoting
            for symmetric indefinite matrices.  If a 2-by-2 block pivot with
            nonzero structure

                       i j
                    i: 0 x
                    j: x 0

            is selected in a symmetric indefinite factorization method, the
            2-by-2 block is inverted and a rank-2 update is applied.  In
            UMFPACK, this 2-by-2 block would be reordered as

                       j i
                    i: x 0
                    j: 0 x

            In both cases, the symmetry of the Schur complement is preserved.

        Control [UMFPACK_SCALE]:  This parameter is new to V4.1.  Version 4.0
            did not scale the matrix.  Note that the user's input matrix is
            never modified, only an internal copy is scaled.

            There are three valid settings for this parameter.  If any other
            value is provided, the default is used.

            UMFPACK_SCALE_NONE:  no scaling is performed.

            UMFPACK_SCALE_SUM:  each row of the input matrix A is divided by
                the sum of the absolute values of the entries in that row.
                The scaled matrix has an infinity norm of 1.

            UMFPACK_SCALE_MAX:  each row of the input matrix A is divided by
                the maximum the absolute values of the entries in that row.
                In the scaled matrix the largest entry in each row has
                a magnitude exactly equal to 1.

            Scaling is very important for the "symmetric" strategy when
            diagonal pivoting is attempted.  It also improves the performance
            of the "unsymmetric" strategy.

            Default: UMFPACK_SCALE_SUM.

    double Info [UMFPACK_INFO] ;        Output argument.

        Contains statistics about the numeric factorization.  If a
        (double *) NULL pointer is passed, then no statistics are returned in
        Info (this is not an error condition).  The following statistics are
        computed in umfpack_di_numeric (only the primary statistics are listed):

        Info [UMFPACK_STATUS]: status code.  This is also the return value,
            whether or not Info is present.

            UMFPACK_OK

                Numeric factorization was successful.  umfpack_di_numeric
                computed a valid numeric factorization.

            UMFPACK_WARNING_singular_matrix

                Numeric factorization was successful, but the matrix is
                singular.  umfpack_di_numeric computed a valid numeric
                factorization, but you will get a divide by zero in
                umfpack_di_solve.  For the other cases below, no Numeric object
                is created (*Numeric is (void *) NULL).

            UMFPACK_ERROR_out_of_memory

                Insufficient memory to complete the numeric factorization.

            UMFPACK_ERROR_argument_missing

                One or more required arguments are missing.

            UMFPACK_ERROR_invalid_Symbolic_object

                Symbolic object provided as input is invalid.

            UMFPACK_ERROR_different_pattern

                The pattern (Ap and/or Ai) has changed since the call to
                umfpack_di_symbolic which produced the Symbolic object.

        Info [UMFPACK_NUMERIC_SIZE]:  the actual final size (in Units) of the
            entire Numeric object, including the final size of the variable
            part of the object.  Info [UMFPACK_NUMERIC_SIZE_ESTIMATE],
            an estimate, was computed by umfpack_di_symbolic.  The estimate is
            normally an upper bound on the actual final size, but this is not
            guaranteed.

        Info [UMFPACK_PEAK_MEMORY]:  the actual peak memory usage (in Units) of
            both umfpack_di_symbolic and umfpack_di_numeric.  An estimate,
            Info [UMFPACK_PEAK_MEMORY_ESTIMATE], was computed by
            umfpack_di_symbolic.  The estimate is normally an upper bound on the
            actual peak usage, but this is not guaranteed.  With testing on
            hundreds of matrix arising in real applications, I have never
            observed a matrix where this estimate or the Numeric size estimate
            was less than the actual result, but this is theoretically possible.
            Please send me one if you find such a matrix.

        Info [UMFPACK_FLOPS]:  the actual count of the (useful) floating-point
            operations performed.  An estimate, Info [UMFPACK_FLOPS_ESTIMATE],
            was computed by umfpack_di_symbolic.  The estimate is guaranteed to
            be an upper bound on this flop count.  The flop count excludes
            "useless" flops on zero values, flops performed during the pivot
            search (for tentative updates and assembly of candidate columns),
            and flops performed to add frontal matrices together.

        Info [UMFPACK_LNZ]: the actual nonzero entries in final factor L,
            including the diagonal.  This excludes any zero entries in L,
            although some of these are stored in the Numeric object.  The
            Info [UMFPACK_LU_ENTRIES] statistic does account for all
            explicitly stored zeros, however.  Info [UMFPACK_LNZ_ESTIMATE],
            an estimate, was computed by umfpack_di_symbolic.  The estimate is
            guaranteed to be an upper bound on Info [UMFPACK_LNZ].

        Info [UMFPACK_UNZ]: the actual nonzero entries in final factor U,
            including the diagonal.  This excludes any zero entries in U,
            although some of these are stored in the Numeric object.  The
            Info [UMFPACK_LU_ENTRIES] statistic does account for all
            explicitly stored zeros, however.  Info [UMFPACK_UNZ_ESTIMATE],
            an estimate, was computed by umfpack_di_symbolic.  The estimate is
            guaranteed to be an upper bound on Info [UMFPACK_UNZ].

        Info [UMFPACK_NUMERIC_TIME]:  The CPU time taken, in seconds.
\end{verbatim}
}

%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\newpage
\subsection{umfpack\_di\_solve}

{\footnotesize
\begin{verbatim}
int umfpack_di_solve
(
    int sys,
    const int Ap [ ],
    const int Ai [ ],
    const double Ax [ ],
    double X [ ],
    const double B [ ],
    void *Numeric,
    const double Control [UMFPACK_CONTROL],
    double Info [UMFPACK_INFO]
) ;

Purpose:

    Given LU factors computed by umfpack_di_numeric (PAQ=LU, PRAQ=LU, or
    P(R\A)Q=LU) and the right-hand-side, B, solve a linear system for the
    solution X.  Iterative refinement is optionally performed.  Only square
    systems are handled.  Singular matrices result in a divide-by-zero for all
    systems except those involving just the matrix L.  Iterative refinement is
    not performed for singular matrices.

    In the discussion below, n is equal to n_row and n_col, because only
    square systems are handled.

Returns:

    The status code is returned.  See Info [UMFPACK_STATUS], below.

Arguments:

    Int sys ;           Input argument, not modified.

        Defines which system to solve.  (') is the linear algebraic transpose.

            sys value       system solved

            UMFPACK_A       Ax=b
            UMFPACK_At      A'x=b
            UMFPACK_Pt_L    P'Lx=b
            UMFPACK_L       Lx=b
            UMFPACK_Lt_P    L'Px=b
            UMFPACK_Lt      L'x=b
            UMFPACK_U_Qt    UQ'x=b
            UMFPACK_U       Ux=b
            UMFPACK_Q_Ut    QU'x=b
            UMFPACK_Ut      U'x=b

        Iterative refinement can be optionally performed when sys is any of
        the following:

            UMFPACK_A       Ax=b
            UMFPACK_At      A'x=b

        For the other values of the sys argument, iterative refinement is not
        performed (Control [UMFPACK_IRSTEP], Ap, Ai, and Ax are ignored).

    Int Ap [n+1] ;      Input argument, not modified.
    Int Ai [nz] ;       Input argument, not modified.
    double Ax [nz] ;    Input argument, not modified.

        If iterative refinement is requested (Control [UMFPACK_IRSTEP] >= 1,
        Ax=b or A'x=b is being solved, and A is nonsingular), then
        these arrays must be identical to the same ones passed to
        umfpack_di_numeric.  The umfpack_di_solve routine does not check the
        contents of these arguments, so the results are undefined if Ap, Ai, Ax,
        are modified between the calls the umfpack_di_numeric and
        umfpack_di_solve.  These three arrays do not need to be present (NULL
        pointers can be passed) if Control [UMFPACK_IRSTEP] is zero, or if a
        system other than Ax=b or A'x=b is being solved, or if A is
        singular, since in each of these cases A is not accessed.

    double X [n] ;      Output argument.

        The solution to the linear system, where n = n_row = n_col is the
        dimension of the matrices A, L, and U.

    double B [n] ;      Input argument, not modified.

        The right-hand side vector, b, stored as a conventional array of size n
        (or two arrays of size n for complex versions).  This routine does not
        solve for multiple right-hand-sides, nor does it allow b to be stored in
        a sparse-column form.

    void *Numeric ;             Input argument, not modified.

        Numeric must point to a valid Numeric object, computed by
        umfpack_di_numeric.

    double Control [UMFPACK_CONTROL] ;  Input argument, not modified.

        If a (double *) NULL pointer is passed, then the default control
        settings are used.

        Control [UMFPACK_IRSTEP]:  The maximum number of iterative refinement
            steps to attempt.  A value less than zero is treated as zero.  If
            less than 1, or if Ax=b or A'x=b is not being solved, or
            if A is singular, then the Ap, Ai, and Ax arguments are not
            accessed.  Default: 2.

    double Info [UMFPACK_INFO] ;        Output argument.

        Contains statistics about the solution factorization.  If a
        (double *) NULL pointer is passed, then no statistics are returned in
        Info (this is not an error condition).  The following statistics are
        computed in umfpack_di_solve (only the primary statistics are listed):

        Info [UMFPACK_STATUS]: status code.  This is also the return value,
            whether or not Info is present.

            UMFPACK_OK

                The linear system was successfully solved.

            UMFPACK_WARNING_singular_matrix

                A divide-by-zero occurred.  Your solution will contain Inf's
                and/or NaN's.  Some parts of the solution may be valid.  For
                example, solving Ax=b with

                A = [2 0]  b = [ 1 ]  returns x = [ 0.5 ]
                    [0 0]      [ 0 ]              [ Inf ]

            UMFPACK_ERROR_out_of_memory

                Insufficient memory to solve the linear system.

            UMFPACK_ERROR_argument_missing

                One or more required arguments are missing.  The B and X
                arguments are always required.  Info and Control are not
                required.  Ap, Ai and Ax are required if Ax=b or
                A'x=b is to be solved, the (default) iterative
                refinement is requested, and the matrix A is nonsingular.

            UMFPACK_ERROR_invalid_system

                The sys argument is not valid, or the matrix A is not square.

            UMFPACK_ERROR_invalid_Numeric_object

                The Numeric object is not valid.

        Info [UMFPACK_SOLVE_FLOPS]:  the number of floating point operations
            performed to solve the linear system.  This includes the work
            taken for all iterative refinement steps, including the backtrack
            (if any).

        Info [UMFPACK_SOLVE_TIME]:  The time taken, in seconds.
\end{verbatim}
}


%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\newpage

\subsection{umfpack\_di\_free\_symbolic}
{\footnotesize
\begin{verbatim}
void umfpack_di_free_symbolic
(
    void **Symbolic
) ;

Purpose:

    Deallocates the Symbolic object and sets the Symbolic handle to NULL.

Arguments:

    void **Symbolic ;           Input argument, deallocated and Symbolic is
                                set to (void *) NULL on output.
\end{verbatim}
}

%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\subsection{umfpack\_di\_free\_numeric}

{\footnotesize
\begin{verbatim}
void umfpack_di_free_numeric
(
    void **Numeric
) ;

Purpose:

    Deallocates the Numeric object and sets the Numeric handle to NULL.

Arguments:

    void **Numeric ;            Input argument, deallocated and Numeric is
                                set to (void *) NULL on output.
\end{verbatim}
}

%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\subsection{umfpack\_di\_defaults}

{\footnotesize
\begin{verbatim}
void umfpack_di_defaults
(
    double Control [UMFPACK_CONTROL]
) ;

Purpose:

    Sets the default control parameter settings.

Arguments:

    double Control [UMFPACK_CONTROL] ;  Output argument.

        Control is set to the default control parameter settings.
\end{verbatim}
}
\end{document}