Python/Numpy MemoryError

Question

Basically, I am getting a memory error in python when trying to perform an algebraic operation on a numpy matrix. The variable u, is a large matrix of double (i

Answer 1

Your matrix has 288x288x156=12,939,264 entries, which for double could come out to 400MB in memory. numpy throwing a MemoryError at you just means that in the function you called the memory needed to perform the operation wasn't available from the OS.

If you can work with sparse matrices this might save you a lot of memory.