AN INTRODUCTION ON SCILAB SOFTWARE AND SCILAB CONTEST IN CHINA

Dr. LI ShiSCILAB Project Manager in China

LIAMA, CASIADr. Claude GOMEZ

CEO, SCILAB Enterprises

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Numerical*Computa/on*

! *Educa/on*

! *Research*

! *Industry*

Major&scien,fic&challenges&

Strategic&industry&and&service&sectors&

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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!

•  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!

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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(

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•  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'

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• 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

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

Books and Proceedings

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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

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2012 SCILAB-OW2 Contest and Workshop:

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

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THE END

Thanks!

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