Present and future

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Present and future
Claude GomezScilab Consortium / INRIAChief
Technology Officer
28 September 2006
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Scilab players
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Group companies and academics
Future
INRIA
Funding
Development Maintenance Assistance Promotion
Make a team
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Scilab Consortium
23 members in 2006
12 members in 2003 ANAGRAM TECHNOLOGIES,
APPEDGE, ARTENUM, ATMEL ROMA, AXS INGENIERIE,
CRIL TECHNOLOGY, CEA, CNES, DASSAULT-AVIATION,
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE, ECOLE CENTRALE DE PARIS,
EADS, EDF, ENPC, ESTEREL TECHNOLOGIES, IFP,
INRIA, KLIPPEL, PSA PEUGEOT CITROËN, RENAULT,
STYREL TECHNOLOGIES, THALES, TNI
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Key players of Scilab

• INRIA
• Consortium hosting
• Legal responsibility
• Main supplier in engineering breakthroughs
• Funding (5 people)
• Scilab Consortium
• Project general management
• Scilab roadmap decision-making authority
• Funding

• Consortium operational team with the help of
  external developers
• Basic development of Scilab
• First level assistance
• Quality assurance, maintenance
• Marketing and promotion
• Contributors community coordination
• 9 people in the team
• External contributors
• Dedicated and specialized toolboxes

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Scilab software
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• Latest release Scilab 4.0 (February 2006)

• Main features
• Improved Windows version
• complete integration, virtual memory
• compilers, performance (Atlas libraries)
• Object oriented graphics
• Powerful graphics functions with
• Matlab syntax
• Powerful Graphics Editor
• Java interface
• Import of Excel files
• Improved Matlab -gt Scilab translator

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• How using Scilab?

• Super calculator
• Calculation engine
• Making toolboxes

• Advantages
• Use of calculation libraries of Scilab
• Language interpreter
• Easy distribution of software built around
  Scilab
• Possibility to modify Scilab kernel
• Complete control of the software

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Scilab statistics
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• www.scilab.org

520,000 downloadings since March 2003
2003 4,000/month March 2006 23,126/month!
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• www.scilab.org

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• www.scilab.org

700,000 distinct visitors since June 2004
Distinct visitors/day June 2004 750 April
2006 2400
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Scilab international
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Around the world

• France
• Strong presence in mechatronics and engineering
  sector
• CEA, CNES, Dassault Aviation, EDF, IFP, PSA,
  Renault, Thales
• Scilab used as the numerical calculation platform
  in RNTL projects OMD and SCOS
• Scicos used in RNTL projects SIMPA and ECLIPSE
• Used at the agrégation de mathématiques,
  engineers schools, Universities

• China
• Represented by LIAMA1 since 2001
• Numerous conferences
• Since 2002 yearly Scilab Contest
• Used in many universities
• 2005 Scilab used in secondary schools

• Japan
• Collaboration with NII2
• 2006 Scilab Contest

• Europe
• Scilab used in the European integrated project
  hArtes THALES, ATMEL
• EADS

• India
• Collaboration with IIT Bombay

• North America
• Collaboration with National Instruments
• LabView / Scilab interface
• Involved in NMC3 numerical calculation
• standard definition

MORE THAN 250,000 INSTALLED SEATS WORLDWIDE

• 1 LIAMA Sino-French Laboratory in Computer
  Science, Automation and Applied Mathematics
• 2 NII National Institute of Informatics - Japan
• 3 NMC Numerical Mathematics Consortium

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Scilab future
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• Scilab 5

• Scilab for everybody at all levels
• Different from Matlab, better in a few domains

• The Open Source numerical software integrating
  scientific
• and technical breakthroughs
• Easy standalone use
• Modular use, services, interoperability and easy
  interface
• with standard professional software

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• Scilab 5

Libraries in Scilab language
Variables memory
Management routines
Parser
Interface routines
Interoperability Modularity
Computation, Visualization, GRID
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www.scilab.org
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