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Colloquium - The OpenGPU project, one year later

June 8, 2011 Becquerel Amphitheater, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau A year after its launching in March 2010, the OpenGPU project partners organize a national conference to share with the scientific community the first quantitative and operational results of the different teams involved. The afternoon will be dedicated to open source for high performance computing (HPC). The Scilab Consortium will present its results at the heart of the OpenGPU project with the implementation of GPGPU functionalities in Scilab. Program and free registration

2011 NII Open House

June 2-3, 2011
 Tokyo Every year since 2008, the Scilab Consortium participates to the National Institute of Informatics (NII) Open House. NII encourages broader use of Scilab by students in Japanese universities and higher education schools in organizing every year the Scilab Toolbox Contest Japan since 2006, and welcomes the Scilab Consortium to its Open House. This year, the Scilab Consortium will welcome on its booth the visitors, with Toyo Corporation which has lately joined the Consortium. Claude Gomez, CEO of Scilab Enterprises will also give a conference untitled "Scilab: the Free

Google Summer of Code 2011

Selected projects for 2011 edition Remote file access  Bojana Ugrenovic  The goal of this project is to allow, from Scilab, transfer of data through number of protocols like HTTP, FTP, etc. This project will be based on the curl library. Mentor: Clément David. Dakota module  Yann Chapalain This project will produce a Scilab extension of Dakota. This software provides a flexible, extensible interface between analysis codes and iterative systems analysis methods.  Mentor: Yann Collette. Accurate and Portable Elementary Functions  Shashank Sahni  The objective of this project is to r

Numerical computation

Lecture given during academic mathematics meetings for secondary schools, 11 April 2011 Organized by the académie of Versailles (French educational authority for Versailles area), those academic mathematics meetings offer students two days of intensive training, with sessions of exercises and lectures. Claude Gomez, CEO of Scilab Enterprises, was invited by the académie to give a lecture on numerical computation. More about his lecture (in French only)

Watch National Instruments Webcast with Scilab

You could not attend the LabVIEW to Scilab Gateway demonstration ? Watch it now The Scilab Consortium has presented online and live the LabVIEW to Scilab Gateway on Wednesday, March 30 on National Instruments website. View the demo View the video on Scilab Channel on Youtube

Save the date – ScilabTEC 2011

The 3rd edition of Scilab Users Day will take place on Wednesday 29th June at the École Polytechnique Organized during Ter@tec Forum, different moments will made of the Scilab Users Day a very special moment for the community to share theirs experiences and exchange on Scilab software: Plenary presentations of industrial developments around Scilab, Thematic workshops presented by the Scilab Consortium R&D Team. Every year, ScilabTec represents a special opportunity for Scilab users to deal with a wide range of subjects, share experiences and feedbacks and discuss with the members

National Instruments Live Webcast with Scilab

Registration is still possible to attend the presentation live and online on Wednesday March 30 at 10:00 A.M The Scilab Consortium will present online and live the LabVIEW to Scilab Gateway on Wednesday, March 30 at 10:00 A.M. To follow this technical presentation and ask questions to the National Instruments organizer or to the Scilab Consortium presenter, simply register to the session "La modélisation numérique au service du prototypage et du déploiement de systèmes" on National Instruments website. To register online

Google Summer of Code 2011

The Scilab Consortium has been chosen by Google for the 3rd consecutive year as mentoring organization It is the seventh edition of the Google Summer of Code (GSOC), program which introduces students around the world to open source software development in offering them stipends to write code for various projects. Since 2005, the program has gathered more than 4500 students from 85 different countries and Google has announced they were expecting a 25% increase of accepted student applications this year. Students applications are opened from March, 28 until April, 8. If you are interested in

Interact Scilab with other tools

Did you know Scilab has functionalities to interact with other tools or facilitate the migration from other software? Import/Export data to/from Scilab Excel® spreadsheets Scilab can read data from Excel and write data in Excel spreadsheets thanks to a dedicated external module. xls link is available via ATOMS. Matlab® binary data files  Scilab can read and write Matlab MAT-files (binary data files) using loadmatfile and savematfile functions. Those functions convert Matlab data types to Scilab corresponding data types and conversely. Consult Online Help dedicated section Migrate to

Offprint of the booklet Scilab for high schools

Additions and update of the booklet with the latest functionalities added to the module Lycée of Scilab Following the release of 5.3.0 and 5.3.1 versions of Scilab and version 1.3 of the module Lycée, new features offer the user a number of improvements for the use of Scilab in class. To discover these new features, download the offprint(only available in French): tap_lycees_2011.pdf 369.51 kB We remind you that the booklet Scilab for high schools is still available for download (only available in French): livret_lycees_2010.pdf 5.54 MB