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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. If you like what you see then you may also be interested in last month's edition and possibly January's too. If I've missed anything then contact me and let me know.
Commercial releases
A minor update to Mathematica has been released. 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
Another month, another Magma release. See what's new in 2.17-6 here.
Open source releases
Version 5.3.1 of Scilab, a superb free MATLAB-like environment, has been released. Check out http://www.scilab.org/en/products/scilab/download/5.3.1/whatsnew to see what's new.
A new minor release (version 4.4.3) of GNUPLOT, a popular open-source plotting package, is now available. The changelog is available at http://www.gnuplot.info/announce.4.4.3
SAGE, the open-source mathematics package based on Python, has seen a new minor release. Version 4.6.2 was released just after I published February's edition of MMS so I've included it here. For a list of all things new see this thread.
Version 1.10.14 of Gnumeric, a free alternative to Excel, has been released. Lots of new goodness listed at http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/announcements/1.10/gnumeric-1.10.14.shtml
Version 12 of EuMaT (Euler Math Toolbox) has been released but I can't find a changelog. If you've never used this software before then it's a bit MATLAB-like and uses Maxima for symbolic stuff.
GP-GPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Units) related news, tutorials and releases
NVIDIA have released version 4.0 of their CUDA toolkit.
Jacket, arguably the most advanced GPU-accelerated toolbox for MATLAB currently available, has been updated to version 1.7 Check out the release notes to see what's been added.
PGI insider have an article called Using GPU-enabled Math Libraries with PGI Fortran which covers GPU accelerated libraries such as CUBLAS, CULA and MAGMA.
Odds and ends
Version 4.0 of the free MATLAB toolbox, Chebfun, has been released. 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. Chebfun is a very interesting project as can be seen from the wide array of examples.
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