On 11 July 2010 11:20, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2. Sage at EuroScipy: > > Another thing -- though most talks mention Cython, not one single talk > given about actual engineers/scientists doing work even mentioned Sage > -- and there were over 30 talks. Perhaps there is no penetration at > all of Sage into scientific computing, at least in Europe.
I think this is true. One thing in particular engineers want is the ability to interface to hardware, control that hardware and grab data from that hardware in real time. GPIB is an interface used on a lot of professional test equipment. USB tends to be popular for this now, though the top-flight test equipment will still use GPIB. MATLAB has an Instrument Control Toolbox for this http://www.mathworks.com/products/instrument/supportedio13769.html Mathematica does not have anything like this. Perhaps one of the reasons Mathematica is less popular in engineering than MATLAB. Labview, which is not something Sage aims to be an alternative too, is another tool which is very good at interfacing to hardware. There are open-source drivers for the National Instruments GPIB board for Linux and FreeBSD (at least). To my knowledge there are none for OS X or Solaris. The Solaris drivers for the National Instruments GPIB card cost a small fortune. Another thing enginners want is tools to design filters - both analogue and digital. I suspect there may be some python code written for this. > Perhaps > this will change in the next few years, given that NSF looks highly > likely to fund this NSF grant http://wstein.org/grants/compmath09/ Good idea. It seems to me that Sage is more like Mathematica than it is MATLAB. In engineering, the use of MATLAB is very common, but hardly anyone uses Mathematica. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
