Download pdf - AN INTRODUCTION ON SCILAB SOFTWARE AND SCILAB ...AN INTRODUCTION ON SCILAB SOFTWARE AND SCILAB CONTEST IN CHINA Dr. LI Shi SCILAB Project Manager in China LIAMA, CASIA Dr. Claude GOMEZ

AN INTRODUCTION ON SCILAB SOFTWARE AND SCILAB CONTEST IN CHINA

Dr. LI ShiSCILAB Project Manager in China

LIAMA, CASIADr. Claude GOMEZ

CEO, SCILAB Enterprises

11年10月27日星期四

Numerical*Computa/on*

! *Educa/on*

! *Research*

! *Industry*

Major&scien,fic&challenges&

Strategic&industry&and&service&sectors&


Scilabis

The Worldwide Reference Free Software for Numerical Computation

•  For$Industry,$Educa0on$and$Research$•  A$federa0ve$role$in$scien0fic$computa0on$

–  Integra0on$of$results$from$scien0fic$world$–  Links$with$other$free$and$non$free$so@ware$

Contributions are welcome!


Next release Scilab 5.4.0 (December 2011)

!  Scilab desktop

!  Unified Scilab preferences: Console, Desktop, Scinote, Xcos

!  History browser, variable editor and browser

!  New Uicontrols: Image Renderer, Table, Tree

!  Graphics: portability, usability (zoom, rotation), exports

!  New functionalities in the on-line help

!  International localization

Works&under&Windows&XP/Vista/7,&GNU/Linux&and&Mac&OS&X&

!  Ergonomic & User-friendly developments of Xcos: block wizard for creating new blocks


Beta version beginning of 2012

New kernel ready for: –  HPC: multithreading, parallelism detection,…

–  Code generation

Scilab for the Near Future: Scilab 6

Language: ascendant compatibility ensured


Software Evolution!

•  Adapta'on!to!free!and!open!source!•  Cleaning!

•  Internal!modules!easy!to!modify!and!maintain!

•  Industrializa'on!

•  Future:!•  Ready!for!new!computer!genera'on:!

new!kernel,!HPC!(mul'core,!GPU),!!

embedded!systems!…!!

Scilab 6 2012 – …

Scilab 5 2003 – 2011


Graphics

GUI

GUI builder

Compiled code

Scilab code

Computation libraries

Parser

Interpreter

API

•  Scilab memory is only limited by hardware •  Dynamic memory allocation

User

650 functions

1090 functions

JAVA

Memory


!

•  INRIA!+!DIGITEO!+!Consor1um!of!Academics!and!Companies!

•  !!

•  Consor1um!:!24!members!

•  French!Ministry!for!Industry,!Europe!(FP7)!

Dedicated(team(with(18(people:(

Funding (2003 – 2012) :

Development

Maintenance

Promotion

ECONOMIC MODEL: step1!

Secure the future:

From!Research!to!Professional!


Support'and'services'are'needed

Crea%on(in(June(2010(of(Scilab Enterprises company(

(Two(main(ac%vi%es:((((((((9(develop(and(publish(Scilab(so?ware((((((((9(deliver(services(for(Scilab(so?ware(

ECONOMIC MODEL: step 2(

From(Professional(to(Business(


•  Training

•  Development and optimization of applications

•  Realization of in-house optimized versions

•  Migrations to Scilab

•  Scilab in the Cloud •  Scilab As A Service and HPC

•  Commercial external modules

Scilab'='Free$so+ware'

funded'by'

delivering'

Scilab Enterprises'

developing'

R & D Projects par7cipa7ng'to'

funded'by'


• From 2002 to 2008: SCILAB Contest

• From 2009: SCILAB-OW2 Contest

• More than 60 universities and 240 works in the past events;

• First Prize Winners: To Visit INRIA and SCILAB Consortium;

• Workshops and IEEE International Workshop on Open-source Software for Scientific Computation;

• http://www.scilab.org.cn

SCILAB-OW2 Contest in China


http://www.scilab.org.cnhttp://www.scilab.org.cn

Books and Proceedings


Organization:

Sponsors:

Sino French Lab in Computer Science, Automation and Applied Mathematics (LIAMA), China

University of Science & technology Beijing, Beijing, China.

Co-sponsored by:

OW2 Consortium

Ningxia University, China

INRIA, France

French Embassy in China

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) , China

Ecole Centrale de Pékin, China

IEEE Beijing Session

2011 SCILAB-OW2 ContestOct. 12-14, Beijing

2011 IEEE International Workshop on Open-source Software for Scientific Computation


2012 SCILAB-OW2 Contest and Workshop:

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics


THE END

Thanks!
