{"id":3207,"date":"2011-02-28T17:10:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2011-02-28T17:11:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T16:11:34","slug":"a-month-of-math-software-february-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3207","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Math Software – February 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month I started a new feature called a Month of Math Software<\/a> and since it turned out to be quite popular I thought I’d do it again. If you have any math software news or reviews that you’d like included in next month’s edition then feel free to contact me.<\/a><\/p>\n

Releases – Commercial<\/strong>
\nMagma V2.17-5 has been released and the list of changes is here<\/a>. Magma is a large software package designed for computations in algebra, number theory, algebraic geometry and algebraic combinatorics.<\/p>\n

Releases \u2013 Open Source <\/strong>
\nA major new version of Octave<\/a>, a high quality, open-source alternative to MATLAB, has been released. Version 3.4.0 has been available from February 8th and the changelog is available at www.gnu.org\/software\/octave\/NEWS-3.4.html<\/a><\/p>\n

A new mathematics package for Mac OS X has been produced – EureKalc 3<\/a>.\u00a0 Screenshot below.\u00a0 Currently at version 3.\u00df.02<\/p>\n

\"EureKalc3.png\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Version 11 beta of Euler Math Toolbox<\/a> has been released with some new symbolic functionality.\u00a0 There is a blog post on the new functionality at http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/apps\/wordpress\/eumat\/2011\/02\/07\/version-11\/<\/a><\/p>\n

A new stable release of Gnumeric<\/a> (The spreadsheet component of GNOME Office) has been released.\u00a0 The new version is 1.10.3 and recent changes can be found at http:\/\/projects.gnome.org\/gnumeric\/announcements\/1.10\/gnumeric-1.10.13.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

Optimization<\/strong>
\nProfessor Stan Uryasev from the University of Florida has produced a website containing a suite of optimization test problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Version 2 of Sergey Moiseev’s free DirectSearch<\/a> optimization package for Maple<\/a> has been released. The DirectSearch package is a collection of commands to numerically compute local and global minimums (maximums) of nonlinear multivariate function with (without) constraints.<\/p>\n

Blog articles about math software<\/strong>
\nMona Zeftel has written an article on PTC’s Mathcad Engineering blog about Mathcad’s new box plots<\/a> including How-Tos for both Mathcad 15 and Mathcad Prime 1.0.<\/p>\n

The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) discusses the double-edged sword of SSE instructions in Wandering Precision<\/a>.\u00a0 SSE instructions can make your numerical algorithms significantly faster but this comes at a price.<\/p>\n

Non Deterministic Floating Point conversions in Java<\/a>.\u00a0 More SSE weirdness; a very detailed article that explains an odd bug in Java on certain architectures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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