Thanks Thomas, much appreciated! However, the Nanda model was only used to learn how to use deSolve most effectively. Unfortunately, for a real, very stiff, model with 130 ODEs, which I cannot share, I have the following stats - 'lsoda' - 320 seconds - 'vode' - 150 seconds - 'bdf' - 430 seconds while ode15s takes 5 (five) seconds. I'm trying now to find the new bottleneck (after correcting the 'times' setting Karline and you pointed out) ... Best, Maciej On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Thomas Petzoldt < thomas.petzoldt@tu-dresden.de> wrote: > Hi Maciek, > > I've made a small benchmark with your example (i5 4690, 3.5-3.9GHz, R > 3.4.2, deSolve 1.21, Windows 10, average of 10 simulations each): > > dt = 0.01 > lsoda: 2.85s > > dt = 1 > ode45: 0.135 > lsoda: 0.039 > bdf: 0.025 > vode: 0.024 > > > The plot of all simulations looks identical. B_CLL shows a steep change at > the beginning, that's why dedicated solvers for stiff systems (bdf, vode) > can be minimally faster than the automatic lsoda. > > Finally, R/deSolve allows to use compiled C or Fortran models and there > are now several packages that support creation of such code ... > > Thomas > > > gc() # clean up memory to make benchmark more reproducible > times <- seq(0, 300, by = 1) > N <- 10 > system.time( > for (i in 1:N) > out <- ode(y = state, times = times, func = Nanda, > method="vode", parms = parameters) > )/N > > > plot(out) > > > -- > Dr. Thomas Petzoldt > Technische Universitaet Dresden > Faculty of Environmental Sciences > Institute of Hydrobiology > 01062 Dresden, Germany > > E-Mail: thomas.petzoldt@tu-dresden.de > http://tu-dresden.de/Members/thomas.petzoldt > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-dynamic-models mailing list R-sig-dynamic-models@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-dynamic-models