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Octave

Introduction

Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language.

Octave has extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating ordinary functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. It is easily extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in Octave's own language, or using dynamically loaded modules written in C++, C, Fortran, or other languages.

Version

Version 2.1.5 is currently available at OSC.

Availability

Octave is available on the Glenn Cluster.

Usage

To begin use of Octave, type

module load octave

Then, to run the program, type

octave

or, to begin use of Octave, type

octave-2.9.12

Documentation

General documentation is available from the Octave home page.