foulser-david@yale.edu (david foulser) (07/18/89)
EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE OFFER I am writing to let educational net users know of a special software offer. Scientific Computing Associates, Inc., of New Haven, Connecticut, is offering educational institutions a site license of its CLAM software running on Sun-3 workstations, for a total of $400. This covers as many copies as you care to license at one site, with a year of maintenance supplied to one contact person per license. CLAM runs on a variety of other UNIX computers and the offer may be extended to them. CLAM, the Computational Linear Algebra Machine, is an interactive scientific computing environment with a natural, matrix-based mathematical syntax. It incorporates a range of advanced features, including o sparse matrix algorithms and data structures, o seamless integration with FORTRAN or C subroutine libraries, and o powerful graphics supporting common display environments - Sun workstations - The X Window System CLAM is also a complete programming language augmented with on-line help and symbolic debugging. CLAM is meant to handle large numerical problems. This distinguishes it from several other products such as Mathematica (primarily symbolic math) and MATLAB (works only with smaller dense matrix problems). CLAM features sophisticated techniques for factoring and solving large systems of linear equations and other compute-intensive tasks. These sparse matrix techniques allow CLAM to represent and manipulate large, sparse arrays efficiently. CLAM's X Windows graphics supports color, 2-D line and contour, 3-D surface, and animation graphics. Also available are SunView, PostScript, and Impress plotting capabilities. For more information about CLAM, please feel free to send Email, call, or write. Please don't post replies to the newsgroup. If there is sufficient interest, I can summarize replies. David Foulser, Ph.D. Research Scientist/Product Manager Scientific Computing Associates, Inc. 246 Church Street, Suite 307 New Haven, CT 06510 USA (203) 777-7442 foulser%sca-sun.uucp@cs.yale.edu