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Scilab in Linux Pratique

An article on Scilab is available in #66 of the French Magazine Linux Pratique Entitled "Affichez vos modèles Blender 3D en situation dans Scilab" - Display your 3-D model Blender in situation in Scilab, the article on page 28 of the magazine explains how to help the user to display a 3-D object in situation in Scilab. The author Yann Morère highlights the adaptability and interoperability of Scilab and free software. To view the magazine, visit the Linux Pratique website

Scilab is recognized as having educational value by the French Department of Education

Scilab and its module for High schools have been granted with the RIP label ("Reconnu d'intérêt pédagogique” - recognized as having educational value) by the committee decision of June 15, 2011 Awarded by the French Department of Education, this label is designed to guide teachers in selecting tools that meet the needs and requirements of the educational system. Consult the press release: CP_Scilab_26072011_eng.pdf 126.12 kB See the news on Educnet website (in French only)

Scilab 5.3.3

We are glad to announce the release of Scilab 5.3.3 Scilab 5.3.3 corrects two serious bugs causing : the Japanese and Polish localizations to fail, the Mac OS X version to fail under Mac OS X 10.6.8 following Apple last update. Download the latest release of Scilab Major changes with Scilab 5.3.2

Back to ScilabTEC 2011

All the media documents that were presented during ScilabTEC 2011 on June 29 at the École Polytechnique, are available for download

Scilab back under Mac OS X 10.6.8

A development version of Scilab can be downloaded Following the last update of Apple Mac OS X version 10.6.8, Scilab 5.3.2 does not load properly. The bug fix will be part of Scilab 5.3.3 release planned for next weeks.  Meanwhile you can download a development version which works under Mac OS X 10.6.8 here For more information, please report to the related bug

Scilab 5.3.2 under Mac OS X 10.6.8

The last Apple update prevents Scilab from launching Following the last update of Apple Mac OS X version 10.6.8, Scilab 5.3.2 does not load properly. We are actively working to resolve the situation so that users can benefit again and as soon as possible of the features of Scilab under this platform. For more information, please report to the related bug

Scilab 5.3.2 under Mac OS X 10.6.8

We are glad to announce the release of Scilab 5.3.2 Scilab 5.3.2 offers users various improvements of Scinotes - the text editor, of Xcos and its documentation, and new functions. Download the latest release of Scilab Major changes with Scilab 5.3.1

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