Symbolic math software on the Nevis Linux cluster
To answer the question that led you here: No, at present we do not have
Mathematica
at Nevis; nor do we have
Matlab
or
Maple
. The licenses for these packages cost money, and must be regularly renewed. The
Columbia
site licenses
reduce, but do not replace, these license fees.
Instead, the cluster offers the open-source alternatives to these mathematics packages:
- Maxima
is a symbolic math package that's an alternative to Mathematica or Maple.
- Octave
is a numerical computation package that can serve as a replacement for Matlab.
- R
is the open-source equivalent to the statistics environment S-plus
.
These packages are installed on every user system of the Nevis
Linux cluster.
You might want to consider
SageMath
, a
Python
-based wrapper around several public-domain symbolic math packages including the ones listed above. It's available via our
notebook server at
https://notebook.nevis.columbia.edu/
.
If you require one of the commercial packages for your work, it would have to be handled on an individual basis; we'd have to purchase a license for a particular computer on which you work for a specified interval of time. As an alternative, these packages are available at the
campus computer lab
and on the
CUNIX server
.