{"id":4997,"date":"2013-07-02T15:31:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T14:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4997"},"modified":"2013-07-02T15:31:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T14:31:05","slug":"a-month-of-math-software-june-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4997","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Math Software &#8211; June 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my monthly round-up of news from the world of mathematical software.\u00a0 As always, thanks to all contributors.\u00a0 If you have any mathematical software news (releases, blog articles and son on), feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?page_id=2055\">contact me<\/a>.\u00a0 For details on how to follow Walking Randomly now that Google Reader has died,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4901\"> see this post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Numerics for .NET<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Version 3.0 of ILNumerics was released in June. \u00a0ILNumerics is a numerical library for .NET with syntax that&#8217;s similar to that of MATLAB.\u00a0 See what&#8217;s new by clicking on <a href=\"http:\/\/ilnumerics.net\/ilnumerics-version-3.0-is-online.html\">http:\/\/ilnumerics.net\/ilnumerics-version-3.0-is-online.html<\/a> and follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ilnumerics\">ILNumerics team on Twitter<\/a> to keep right up to date with this product.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Faster, faster, FASTER!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) have updated the parallel version of their commercial Fortran library to Mark 24.\u00a0 Full details of all 1784 routines available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nag.co.uk\/numeric\/FL\/nagdoc_fl24\/html\/GENINT\/smpnews.html#SMPNEWS\">http:\/\/www.nag.co.uk\/numeric\/FL\/nagdoc_fl24\/html\/GENINT\/smpnews.html#SMPNEWS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sparsification<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Version 1.0 of TxSSA has been released.\u00a0 According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/txssa\/\">project&#8217;s website<\/a>, <em>&#8220;TxSSA is an acronym for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.txcorp.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tech-X Corporation<\/a>\u00a0Sparse Spectral Approximation. It is a library that has interfaces in C++, C, and MATLAB. It is an implementation of a matrix sparsification algorithm that takes a general real or complex matrix as input and produces a sparse output matrix of the same size. The non-zero entries are chosen to minimize changes to the singular values and singular vectors corresponding to the near null-space. The output matrix is constrained to preserve left and right null-spaces exactly. The sparsity pattern of the output matrix is automatically determined or can be given as input.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Data and Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stata is a commercial statistics package that&#8217;s been around since 1985.\u00a0 It&#8217;s now at version 13 and has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stata.com\/stata13\/\">bucket load of new functions and improvements<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A new minor release of IDL (Interactive Data Language) from Exelis Visual Information Solutions has been released.\u00a0 Details of version 8.2.3 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exelisvis.com\/Home\/NewsUpdates\/TabId\/170\/ArtMID\/735\/ArticleID\/12390\/IDL-823.aspx\">can be found here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Molten Mathematics<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/icl.cs.utk.edu\/magma\/news\/news.html?id=318\">Version 1.4 Beta<\/a> of the free GPU accelerated Linear Algebra library, <a href=\"http:\/\/icl.cs.utk.edu\/magma\/\">Magma<\/a> has been released with a nice set of performance enhancements and new functions.<\/li>\n<li>The other Magma on the block is the commercial <a href=\"http:\/\/magma.maths.usyd.edu.au\/magma\/\">Magma Computational Algebra System<\/a> which was updated to <a href=\"http:\/\/magma.maths.usyd.edu.au\/magma\/releasenotes\/2\/19\/7\/\">version 2.19-7<\/a> this month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Some Freebies<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.smath.info\/forum\/\">SMath studio<\/a> is a free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptc.com\/product\/mathcad\/\">Mathcad clone<\/a> developed by Andrey Ivashov.\u00a0 Recently, Andrey has been releasing nee versions of Smath much more regularly and it is now at version 0.96.4909.\u00a0 To see what&#8217;s been added in June, see the forum posts <a href=\"http:\/\/en.smath.info\/forum\/yaf_postst1859_Nightly-build--SMath-Studio-0-96-4909--10-June-2013.aspx\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.smath.info\/forum\/yaf_postst1839_Nightly-build--SMath-Studio-0-96-4902--03-June-2013.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Rene Grothmann&#8217;s very frequently updated <a href=\"http:\/\/euler.rene-grothmann.de\/contact.html\">Euler Math Toolbox<\/a> is now at version 22.8.\u00a0 As always, Rene&#8217;s detailed <a href=\"http:\/\/euler.rene-grothmann.de\/Programs\/Changes.html\">version log<\/a> tells you what&#8217;s new.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Safe and reliable numerical computing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sollya 4.0 was released earlier this month and is available for download at: <a href=\"http:\/\/sollya.gforge.inria.fr\/\">http:\/\/sollya.gforge.inria.fr\/<\/a>.\u00a0 According to the developers, <em>&#8220;Sollya is both a tool environment and a library for safe floating-point code development. It offers a convenient way to perform computations with multiple precision interval arithmetic. It is particularly targeted to the automatized implementation of mathematical floating-point libraries (libm).&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ti3.tu-harburg.de\/intlab\/\">INTLAB toolbox for MATLAB<\/a> is now at version 7.1. INTLAB is the MATLAB toolbox for reliable computing and self-validating algorithms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pythonic Mathematics<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Version 5.10 of Sage, the free Computer Algebra System based on Python, was released on 17th June.\u00a0 Martin Albrect discusses some of his <a href=\"http:\/\/martinralbrecht.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/20\/sage-5-10\/\">favourite new goodies over at his blog<\/a> and the full list of new stuff is on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagemath.org\/mirror\/src\/changelogs\/sage-5.10.txt\">Sage changelog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Pandas is Python&#8217;s main data analysis library and version 0.12 is out.\u00a0 Take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/pandas.pydata.org\/pandas-docs\/dev\/whatsnew.html\">newness here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my monthly round-up of news from the world of mathematical software.\u00a0 As always, thanks to all contributors.\u00a0 If you have any mathematical software news (releases, blog articles and son on), feel free to contact me.\u00a0 For details on how to follow Walking Randomly now that Google Reader has died, see this post. 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