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Mathematica on Athena updated to 8.0.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Nov 3 13:29:33 2011
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
To: software-announce@mit.edu
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:29:29 -0400
I've updated Mathematica on Athena to 8.0.4. From my message to users:
Mathematica 8.0.4 has been installed on Athena. You can run it
now by
typing "add math", followed by:
mathematica -ver 8.0.4 & (for the GUI)
math -ver 8.0.4 (for the command-line
interface)
Among changes in this release:
* New menu options and an interactive wizard for deploying to
CDF
* New functions CDFInformation and CDFDeploy for
programmatically
deploying CDF files
* New download progress indicator for the CDF browser plugin
* Improved stability, speed, and security of the CDF browser
plugin
* Improved memory use of the Share function when storing large
sets of data
* Updated MKL library to improve performance
* New syntax coloring to warn about use of Module variable in
Dynamic
* Performance improvements to citation functions
* Improved behavior of optimized variables in compiled
conditional statements
* Improved front end behavior when saving untitled notebooks
under new versions of Linux
We plan to make it the default during IAP 2012.
Alex
