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=Who uses Octave?= | |||
* Universities, as seen from [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general/9939/focus=9940 this discussion]. | * Universities, as seen from [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general/9939/focus=9940 this discussion]. | ||
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* People, at home, for whatever numerical purpose. | * People, at home, for whatever numerical purpose. | ||
=User experiences= | =User experiences= | ||
The list of self-described user experience has been provided in 01/2008 by Steve Thompson on the [https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave help-octave mailing list]: | The list of self-described user experience has been provided in 01/2008 by Steve Thompson on the [https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave help-octave mailing list]: | ||
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--Bill Denney | --Bill Denney | ||
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I use Octave, (together with [ | I use Octave, (together with MPITB [1] on a 128 Intel Itanium II nodes cluster) at the Centre for Advanced Computational Technologies/ISUFI of University of Lecce (Italy) for my researches. I usefully use Octave on the above mentioned cluster (for parallel data processing) where Matlab does not work because it's not officially supported on IA64 platforms. | ||
--Gianvito Quarta | --Gianvito Quarta | ||
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--Ronald Crummett | --Ronald Crummett | ||
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Octave is installed in the server "pandora" at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if some else apart of me is aware of this. Sad thou. | Octave is installed in the server "pandora" at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if some else apart of me is aware of this. Sad thou. | ||
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--Agustin Barto | --Agustin Barto | ||
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Aside from using Octave for 90%+ of my own thesis work at the University of Colorado in Boulder, I have contributed to a project called CISM-DX. This is a collection of analysis and visualization tools based heavily on Octave and OpenDX? that is being developed as part of the NSF-funded Center for Integraged Space-weather Modeling (CISM). I don't think it (CISM-DX) has been used extensively in a traditional class setting, but it has been used in CISM's annual "summer school", a crash course intro to applied space physics held each year at Boston University. I wouldn't be surprised if others more familiar with CISM-DX are lurking about this list that could tell you more if they just spoke up. | Aside from using Octave for 90%+ of my own thesis work at the University of Colorado in Boulder, I have contributed to a project called CISM-DX. This is a collection of analysis and visualization tools based heavily on Octave and OpenDX? that is being developed as part of the NSF-funded Center for Integraged Space-weather Modeling (CISM). I don't think it (CISM-DX) has been used extensively in a traditional class setting, but it has been used in CISM's annual "summer school", a crash course intro to applied space physics held each year at Boston University. I wouldn't be surprised if others more familiar with CISM-DX are lurking about this list that could tell you more if they just spoke up. | ||
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We have just swapped our main Undergraduate teaching from Matlab to Octave with little problem. We also distribute a Live CD with Octave on, + an embryonic web based calculation package using Octave as the backend processor, See http://www-mdp.eng.cam.ac.uk, for further details and a slightly buggy on-line version. | We have just swapped our main Undergraduate teaching from Matlab to Octave with little problem. We also distribute a Live CD with Octave on, + an embryonic web based calculation package using Octave as the backend processor, See http://www-mdp.eng.cam.ac.uk, for further details and a slightly buggy on-line version. | ||
--Peter Long | --Peter Long | ||
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--Muthiah Annamalai | --Muthiah Annamalai | ||
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I use GNU Octave for many reasons. First, it is powerful, stable and easy to use. My research involves extensive Monte Carlo simulation work, and GNU Octave definitely satisfies my needs. Second, GNU Octave is free software. It adheres to the basic principle of giving the user the ``freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software, | I use GNU Octave for many reasons. First, it is powerful, stable and easy to use. My research involves extensive Monte Carlo simulation work, and GNU Octave definitely satisfies my needs. Second, GNU Octave is free software. It adheres to the basic principle of giving the user the ``freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation. Third, GNU Octave's community of developers and users is friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. A quick post to the help list usually results in a quick solution to a problem I may have. | ||
Power, stability, freedom, and community---some of the reasons why I use GNU Octave. | Power, stability, freedom, and community---some of the reasons why I use GNU Octave. | ||
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We use it for 2-3 different research projects in the LIMBS lab at Johns Hopkins. These are all on Linux machines. 1) Image capture, image processing, and control of a 6DOF robot arm for experiments in visual servoing | We use it for 2-3 different research projects in the LIMBS lab at Johns Hopkins. These are all on Linux machines. 1) Image capture, image processing, and control of a 6DOF robot arm for experiments in visual servoing | ||
Image capture and controlling stimulus apparatus for experiments on sensorimotor integration in weakly electric fish | |||
(In the works) Image capture and control algorithms for flexible-bevel tipped needle steering for percutaneous therapies | |||
In general, people here use Matlab for simulations and most research work, because (1) they feel the plotting utilities are better (the recent work by a lot of people is quickly making that a non-issue), (2) they often use arcane functions in toolboxes not provided by Octave or OctaveForge, and (3) that is what they learned with and they are sticking to it. | In general, people here use Matlab for simulations and most research work, because (1) they feel the plotting utilities are better (the recent work by a lot of people is quickly making that a non-issue), (2) they often use arcane functions in toolboxes not provided by Octave or OctaveForge, and (3) that is what they learned with and they are sticking to it. | ||
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--John Swensen | --John Swensen | ||
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Add your own experience here! | Add your own experience here! |