Help Center Portals: MAPS | Information Technology Solutions
Vendor: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows, Mac and Linux.
General Description: Software used mainly for computation, but also for modeling, simulation, visualization, development, documentation, and deployment.
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Are you interested in installing Mathematica elsewhere? Submit a request for installation to the Mines Help Center. Once the request is received, computer-support staff will contact you to arrange a time for installation. For computers that stay on campus permanently, this is the preferred way to license Mathematica.
Additional Features:
Wolfram Lightweight Grid Manager 9 is now available.
Lightweight Grid Manager makes it easy to utilize idle hardware for parallel Mathematica computations. When Lightweight Grid Manager is installed on a machine with Mathematica, any Mathematica users on that network can discover and connect to that machine’s Mathematica computation kernels from a remote computer, lending more CPU power to their computations. For more information, visit: http://www.wolfram.com/lightweight-grid-manager.
Individuals will need Mathematica installed and activated on their machine to take advantage of Lightweight Grid Manager. Free Lightweight Grid Manager licenses can be requested by Mathematica users through the following form, using their Mathematica activation key or the site license number: http://www.wolfram.com/services/premiersupport/lightweightgrid/index.cgi.
Documentation: Available at the Wolfram Mathematica Documentation Center. Wofram also offers multimedia tutorials for new users.
Tutorials
The first three tutorials are excellent for new users, and can be assigned to students as homework to learn Mathematica outside of class time.
Hands-on Start to Mathematica Online (video) This tutorial screencast series provides step-by-step instructions to get you started with Mathematica Online —from creating your first notebook complete with text, calculations, visualizations, and interactive examples, to sharing your notebook with others for collaboration and viewing through the Wolfram Cloud.
Tour of Wolfram|Alpha New to Wolfram|Alpha? Take a tour to learn what you can do with Wolfram|Alpha, and explore additional features you get with Wolfram|Alpha Pro.
Teaching with Mathematica
Mathematica offers an interactive classroom experience that helps students explore and grasp concepts, plus gives faculty the tools they need to easily create supporting course materials, assignments, and presentations.
Research with Mathematica
Rather than requiring different toolkits for different jobs, Mathematica integrates the world’s largest collection of algorithms, high-performance computing capabilities, and a powerful visualization engine in one coherent system, making it ideal for academic research in just about any discipline.
Mathematica for University Research—Free video course Explore Mathematica’s high-level and multi-paradigm programming language, support for parallel computing and GPU architectures, built-in functionality for specialized application areas, and multiple publishing and deployment options for sharing your work.
Wolfram Language Training Courses—Free video courses Explore what’s possible with the Wolfram Language, including programming fundamentals and concepts, built-in functions, symbolic expressions, and tips for better, faster coding.
Utilizing HPC and Grid Computing—Free video course Learn how to create programs that take advantage of multicore machines or available clusters.
Field-Specific Applications Learn what areas of Mathematica are useful for specific fields.
In case of difficulties running the software in a Mines ITS managed lab: Contact ITS via the Mines Help Center. We want the program to be properly installed, licensed and functioning. If you have questions about the use of the program, please contact your instructor, TA or lab manager.