[Beowulf] Teaching Scientific Computation (looking fo the perfect text)

[tegner at nada.kth.se]

> All,
>
> Regarding the Matlab vs Octave debate, has anyone looked at Scilab? It
> has signal processing toolkits, ode solvers and a few other add-ons
> that might be of interest. Also does decent graphics & animations.
>
There is also python with matplotlib

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/

if used in combination with ipython (enhanced interactive Python shell)
one has a very capable "matlab-replacement".

However, it requires a small investment in terms of learning python (which
is easy), and the ability to accept the enforced indentation policy (which
might be harder for some...).

Regards,

/jon