project 1 info

Hi

A few things about the project.

Only use the sparse version of A with the builtin lu
command.

I posted a new lu_time_ex.m that got rid of two extraneous
parts: asym* should be deleted, and the defined v wasn't needed.
I must have been half asleep when I was trimming things out of
a bigger code when I posted that; sorry about the mistakes.

You can find out somethings about the hardware on strauss
using fpversion or uname -pX or uname -aX.
But, you only get general information about the fact that
it's a 12 cpu sparc processor. I'm not sure yet how to get
more info. I believe the cpu is a 750MHz clock and 150MHz memory.

On a pc, you can use dxdiag from the run program dialog box
and you will get info like the following.
My desktop is a 2.66 GHz Intel Core2 duo (2 processors)
model 6700 with 3 GB or memory. (I'm not sure of the speed of
the memory in my desktop yet.) Also of interest may be cache
memory for the cpu.

I don't have any idea yet how to get similar info for a Mac.

RJB