Locally Maintained Numerical Software

The ISU Math Department maintains four lockers on Project Vincent.

Project Vincent (PV) is a network of hundreds of workstations sharing a common diskspace, patterned after MIT's Project Athena. It is the standard computing environment at Iowa State. A locker is a directory which can be mounted from a file server, in PV-Speak.

The links below to the math, mathclasses, lapack, and mathextra lockers require that your web browser is running on a machine that supports AFS (the Andrew File System), and possibly even the kerberos authentication system. In particular, these links will not be accessible if you are logged in from home, or even from a non-Project Vincent machine on campus.

• The math locker contains research-oriented mathematical software, plus a lot of software of general interest. One of the main packages in it is the Core Mathematical Library (CMLIB), a single library which contains many of the packages found in Netlib. This link points only to documentation maintained locally at Iowa State University. The software itself is available on Netlib.
• The mathclasses locker contains software that is being used for teaching purposes. Some subdirectories may have restricted access. The distinction between this locker and the math locker is not always clearcut. There are some symbolic links between the two.
• The lapack locker contains the Linear Algebra Package (LAPACK). This package really belongs in the math locker, but was separated because of its size. Some local documentation is available, the software itself can be found on Netlib.
• The mathextra locker is extra space available to faculty for data storage. Graduate students may request space here if needed for research.

There is much more software than is documented here. Feel free to browse around.

Other software available for numerical computation:

• Mathematica (available on mercury and in the Mathematics Computer Lab)
• Matlab (available on Project Vincent and in the Mathematics Computer Lab)
• Maple (available on Project Vincent)