{"id":570,"date":"2011-03-29T17:20:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T16:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2011-03-30T16:50:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T15:50:01","slug":"a-month-of-math-software-%e2%80%93-march-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Math Software \u2013 March 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the March 2011 edition of A Month of Math Software (MMS) where I take you on a brief tour of new things in the world of mathematical software.\u00a0 If you like what you see then you may also be interested in last month’s edition<\/a> and possibly January’s too<\/a>. If I’ve missed anything then contact me<\/a> and let me know.<\/p>\n

Commercial releases<\/strong><\/p>\n

A minor update to Mathematica has been released.\u00a0 Version 8.0.1 contains bug fixes and enhancements and a short list of these is available at http:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/mathematica\/quick-revision-history.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Another month, another Magma release.\u00a0 See what’s new in 2.17-6 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Open source releases<\/strong><\/p>\n

Version 5.3.1 of Scilab<\/a>, a superb free MATLAB-like environment, has been released.\u00a0 Check out http:\/\/www.scilab.org\/en\/products\/scilab\/download\/5.3.1\/whatsnew<\/a> to see what’s new.<\/p>\n

A new minor release (version 4.4.3) of GNUPLOT, a popular open-source plotting package, is now available.\u00a0 The changelog is available at http:\/\/www.gnuplot.info\/announce.4.4.3<\/a><\/p>\n

SAGE<\/a>, the open-source mathematics package based on Python, has seen a new minor release.\u00a0 Version 4.6.2 was released just after I published February’s edition of MMS so I’ve included it here.\u00a0 For a list of all things new see this thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Version 1.10.14 of Gnumeric, a free alternative to Excel, has been released.\u00a0 Lots of new goodness listed at http:\/\/projects.gnome.org\/gnumeric\/announcements\/1.10\/gnumeric-1.10.14.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

Version 12 of EuMaT (Euler Math Toolbox)<\/a> has been released but I can’t find a changelog (update<\/strong>: changelog is here<\/a>) .<\/strong>\u00a0 If you’ve never used this software before then it’s a bit MATLAB-like and uses Maxima for symbolic stuff.<\/p>\n

\"Euler<\/a><\/p>\n

GP-GPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Units) related news, tutorials and releases
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

NVIDIA have released version 4.0 of their CUDA toolkit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jacket<\/a>, arguably the most advanced GPU-accelerated toolbox for MATLAB currently available, has been updated to version 1.7\u00a0 Check out the release notes<\/a> to see what’s been added.<\/p>\n

PGI insider have an article called Using GPU-enabled Math Libraries with PGI Fortran<\/a> which covers GPU accelerated libraries such as CUBLAS<\/a>, CULA<\/a> and MAGMA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Odds and ends<\/strong><\/p>\n

Version 4.0 of the free MATLAB toolbox, Chebfun<\/a>, has been released.\u00a0 Chebfun is a collection of algorithms, and a software system in object-oriented MATLAB, which extends familiar powerful methods of numerical computation involving numbers to continuous or piecewise-continuous functions.\u00a0 Chebfun is a very interesting project as can be seen from the wide array of examples<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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