{"id":4322,"date":"2012-06-02T10:53:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T09:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2012-06-05T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T20:18:07","slug":"a-month-of-math-software-%e2%80%93-may-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4322","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Math Software \u2013 May 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the slightly delayed May edition of A Month of Math Software.\u00a0 The archives can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?cat=47\">https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?cat=47<\/a> and if you have any news for next month then feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?page_id=2055\">contact me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wolfram SystemModeler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wolfram Research have released a new product called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/system-modeler\/\">SystemModeler<\/a>, a model based design and simulation tool that occupies the same space as products such as The Mathwork&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathworks.co.uk\/products\/simulink\/\">Simulink<\/a>, Maplesoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maplesoft.com\/products\/maplesim\/\">Maplesim<\/a>, and the free Scilab add-on, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scilab.org\/products\/xcos\">xcos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wolfram.com\/2012\/05\/23\/announcing-wolfram-systemmodeler\/\">Announcement blog post from Stephen Wolfram<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/system-modeler\/\">SystemModeler website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mathematical libraries<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) released a new version of the commercial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nag.co.uk\/numeric\/FL\/FSdescription.asp\">NAG Library for SMP and multicore<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a version of their Fortran library which includes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nag.co.uk\/numeric\/FL\/nagdoc_fl23\/xhtml\/GENINT\/smptuned.xml#SMPTUNED\">few hundred routines<\/a> that have been optimised for multicore processors.\u00a0 The latest release, Mark 23, adds an extra 116 routines (some of them have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nag.co.uk\/numeric\/fs\/newarticles23\">written up in detail<\/a>) bringing the total number of functions to 1704. A total of 337 have been parallelised to make use of multicore processors.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2475\">I played with this library<\/a> when it was at Mark 22.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/icl.cs.utk.edu\/magma\/news\/news.html?id=291\">Version 1.2 of Magma<\/a>, the linear algebra library for NVIDIA GPUs has been released. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khronos.org\/opencl\/\">OpenCL<\/a> version, clMAGMA has also seen an update in <a href=\"http:\/\/icl.cs.utk.edu\/magma\/news\/news.html?id=293\">version 0.2<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>General Purpose Mathematics<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Version 5.0 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagemath.org\/\">Sage<\/a> was released on 14th May; go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagemath.org\/mirror\/src\/changelogs\/sage-5.0.txt\">the changelog<\/a> to see what&#8217;s new.\u00a0 Sage is a superb free alternative to Mathematica, Maple or MATLAB based on the Python programming language and over 100 other open source projects.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve never heard of Sage, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagemath.org\/help-video.html\">these Videos serve<\/a> as a good introduction.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.utexas.edu\/pipermail\/maxima\/2012\/028633.html\">Version 5.27 of Maxima<\/a> has been released.\u00a0 Maxima is a free computer algebra system that&#8217;s available for all major operating systems and it is very capable.\u00a0 Features include symbolic calculus, linear algebra, plotting and arbitrary precision arithmetic.\u00a0 There is a post here on Walking Randomly on how to use it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2079\">plot direction fields for 1st order ODEs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A new version of SMath Studio, the free Mathcad-like clone, is now available.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.smath.info\/forum\/yaf_postst1346_SMath-Studio-0-94-4535--01-June-2012.aspx\">Version 0.94.4535<\/a> adds a couple of new features to a great program; Linux and Windows versions are available.<\/li>\n<li>The Euler Math Toolbox (A free, MATLAB-like language) is now at version 15.6.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/euler.rene-grothmann.de\/versions\/version-15.html\">http:\/\/euler.rene-grothmann.de\/versions\/version-15.html<\/a> for the new stuff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Data Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>R-Studio, the fantastic free Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the statistical programming language R has been updated to version 0.96.\u00a0 New features include code-folding (<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/42130711\">click here for video<\/a>), lots of new Sweave features (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statistik.lmu.de\/~leisch\/Sweave\/\">Sweave<\/a> is a tool that allows to embed the R code for complete data analyses in latex documents) and more. See <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rstudio.org\/2012\/05\/14\/rstudio-v096\/\">this blog post<\/a> for all of the details.<\/li>\n<li>Excelis have updated their commerical Interactive Data Language (IDL).\u00a0 See what&#8217;s new in version 8.2 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exelisvis.com\/ProductsServices\/IDL\/VersionUpdate.aspx\">http:\/\/www.exelisvis.com\/ProductsServices\/IDL\/VersionUpdate.aspx<\/a> I also recently learned of a free implementation of the IDL language &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/gnudatalanguage.sourceforge.net\/\">The GNU Data Language<\/a> &#8212; which last saw a release in February of this year.<\/li>\n<li>A new beta of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ucar.edu\/\">NCL (NCAR Command Language) <\/a>is now available.\u00a0 NCL is a free interpreted language designed specifically for scientific data analysis and visualisation.\u00a0 There is an extensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ucar.edu\/current_release.shtml\">what&#8217;s new page<\/a> which gives the details of Version 6.1 .0-beta.<\/li>\n<li>The Perl Data Language (PDL) has seen a <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/pdl\/files\/PDL\/2.4.11\/README.txt\/view\">minor update to 2.4.11<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Python<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Numpy 1.6.2 has been released.\u00a0 Numpy is the fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.\u00a0 This is a bug-fix release with details available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/numpy\/files\/NumPy\/1.6.2\/README.txt\/download\">README.txt file<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mobile math software<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Someone is working on <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/maximaonandroid\/\">Maxima for Android<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve not tried it yet.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnuplot.info\/\">Gnuplot<\/a> has been ported to Android by Corbin Champion, the developer who is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4303\">trying to bring Octave to the Android world<\/a> (There is still time to donate at the time of writing).\u00a0 Look for <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.addiPlot&amp;hl=en\">AddiPlot<\/a> in Google Play.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the slightly delayed May edition of A Month of Math Software.\u00a0 The archives can be found at https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?cat=47 and if you have any news for next month then feel free to contact me. 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