# MATLAB: Create this particular SPARSE matrix to solve a quadratic program

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Hello everyone,
I am trying to solve the following large scale quadratic program:
min (1/2*x'*Q*x + c'*x) subject to x >= 0
where the vector x is of dimension (n*d^2) where n is very large and d is small (in my problem: n = 220512 and d = 16).
The matrix Q is sparse, and is constructed as follows.
    one = ones(d,1);    A = kron(eye(d),one');    B = repmat(diag(one),1,d);    M = A'*A + B'*B;
and Q is a *block diagonal* matrix where there are n identical blocks (in the diagonal), each block is the matrix M .
Now I would like to create Q as a sparse matrix (otherwise there will be a MEMORY problem when solving the original quadratic program, using quadprog for example).
Someone suggested me the following solution:
S = d^2*n;Q = sparse(S, S); %'// preallocates with zerosfor b = 0:d^2:S-1    Q(b+(1:d^2),b+(1:d^2)) = M;end
However I think this solution is only suitable for small scale. I executed the code for n = 220512 and d = 16 an hour ago but it still keeps running (while the specs of my computer are not so bad: 16GB RAM, Intel Core i7-4770 3.4 GHz, quad-core).
Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

MSparse = sparse(M);% replicate: please don't test with n=220512 directlyMblk = repmat({MSparse}, 1, n);% convert do block diagonalQ = blkdiag(Mblk{:});