The Matrix Market exchange formats are a set of
human readable
A human-readable medium or human-readable format is any encoding of data or information that can be naturally read by humans.
In computing, ''human-readable'' data is often encoded as ASCII or Unicode text, rather than as binary data. In most ...
,
ASCII
ASCII ( ), abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Because ...
-based
file format
A file format is a Computer standard, standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. It specifies how bits are used to encode information in a digital storage medium. File formats may be either proprietary format, pr ...
s designed to facilitate the exchange of
matrix
Matrix most commonly refers to:
* ''The Matrix'' (franchise), an American media franchise
** '' The Matrix'', a 1999 science-fiction action film
** "The Matrix", a fictional setting, a virtual reality environment, within ''The Matrix'' (franchi ...
data. The file formats were designed and adopted for the Matrix Market, a
NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical sc ...
repository for test data for use in comparative studies of
algorithm
In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm () is a finite sequence of rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation. Algorithms are used as specifications for performing ...
s for
numerical linear algebra
Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning linear equations such as:
:a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n=b,
linear maps such as:
:(x_1, \ldots, x_n) \mapsto a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n,
and their representations in vector spaces and through matric ...
.
See also
*
Harwell-Boeing file format
The Harwell-Boeing file format (also known as HB format ) is a file format designed to store information used to describe sparse matrices
In numerical analysis and scientific computing, a sparse matrix or sparse array is a matrix in which mos ...
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Matrix Market exchange formats
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