Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!exodus-bb!khb From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) Newsgroups: comp.sys.super Subject: Re: Generating Source Code out of Algebra Message-ID: Date: 17 Aug 90 23:14:30 GMT References: <1116@camme.UUCP> <1990Aug17.214800.16650@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun MegaSystems Lines: 33 In-reply-to: abennett@athena.mit.edu's message of 17 Aug 90 21:48:00 GMT In article <1990Aug17.214800.16650@athena.mit.edu> abennett@athena.mit.edu (Andrew Bennett) writes: As I understand it, programs such as Mathematica and Maple try to run directly off of the algebra equations. Both are available for Crays. Mathematica is *way* too costly, but Maple is pretty reasonable. Never having used either, though, I don't know if they're worth the effort. Are they? If not, what's wrong with them? Too limited somehow? Too slow? -Drew Both are symbolic packages; not necessarily wonderful for numerical approximations. I defer to those that have run the codes (like the folks at NCSA) but I don't recall Mathematica on the Cray being a speed demon, one article suggested that for solving a large gravity model it was only 4x a Sun (not that Suns are slow ;> but one expects more from a Cray). MathStation _sounds_ like a super package. However, I am not currently involved in the kinds of projects for which it is suited. I look forward to a NetReview ;> -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keith H. Bierman kbierman@Eng.Sun.COM | khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM SMI 2550 Garcia 12-33 | (415 336 2648) Mountain View, CA 94043