Educational Site Licenses for CLAM

[david foulser]

		      EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE OFFER

I am writing to let educational net users know of a special software
offer.

Scientific Computing Associates, Inc., of New Haven, Connecticut, is
offering educational institutions a site license of its CLAM software
running on Sun-3 workstations, for a total of $400. This covers as many
copies as you care to license at one site, with a year of maintenance
supplied to one contact person per license.  CLAM runs on a variety of
other UNIX computers and the offer may be extended to them.

CLAM, the Computational Linear Algebra Machine, is an interactive
scientific computing environment with a natural, matrix-based mathematical
syntax. It incorporates a range of advanced features, including 

 	o  sparse matrix algorithms and data structures, 
	o  seamless integration with FORTRAN or C subroutine libraries, and 
	o  powerful graphics supporting common display environments 
		-  Sun workstations 
		-  The X Window System

CLAM is also a complete programming language augmented with on-line help
and symbolic debugging.

CLAM is meant to handle large numerical problems. This distinguishes it
from several other products such as Mathematica (primarily symbolic math)
and MATLAB (works only with smaller dense matrix problems).

CLAM features sophisticated techniques for factoring and solving large
systems of linear equations and other compute-intensive tasks.  These
sparse matrix techniques allow CLAM to represent and manipulate large,
sparse arrays efficiently. 

CLAM's X Windows graphics supports color, 2-D line and contour, 3-D
surface, and animation graphics. Also available are SunView, PostScript,
and Impress plotting capabilities.

For more information about CLAM, please feel free to send Email, call, or
write. Please don't post replies to the newsgroup. If there is sufficient
interest, I can summarize replies.

David Foulser, Ph.D.
Research Scientist/Product Manager

Scientific Computing Associates, Inc.
246 Church Street, Suite 307
New Haven, CT 06510 USA
(203) 777-7442
foulser%sca-sun.uucp at cs.yale.edu