Maple
Software System for Symbolic & Numeric Computation
ITS will discontinue support for Maple, effective May 30, 2012. Maple will remain available under a perpetual license at version 14 but there will be no further maintenance or updates to the software.
Maple will be removed from the UVa Hive on May 30, 2012.
Users may find Mathematica, which is licensed at UVa and supported by ITS Research Computing, a suitable replacement for Maple. MATLAB users may find it convenient to make use of MATLAB's symbolic toolbox. The toolbox may be invoked from the MATLAB command line using the mupad command.
Questions about this change should be directed to Research Computing by email to res-consult@virginia.edu, or in person or by phone to the Scholars' Lab in Alderman Library (243-8800).
About Maple
Maple is technical software system for doing symbolic and numeric computation. It has both a text-based and graphical user interface, an extensible programming language, and sophisticated 2-D and 3-D plotting utilities. It also has word processing capabilities, can export to HTML and LaTeX, and has connectivity to Excel, Matlab, and external C-callable libraries.
Maple Availability
The University has a site license for Maple on the following platforms: Linux, Windows, and Macintosh. Maple 14 is currently available on ITS's UNIX platforms and in computing labs on Grounds. Faculty and staff (including graduate students employed as teaching or research assistants) can currently obtain Maple for the Windows and Macintosh operating systems from the Research Computing Support Software Website. Unlike other math packages, users of Maple do not need to be in contact with a licensing server while using the software.
Installing Maple
Please refer to these Maple Installation webpages for detailed information related to installing Maple.
Access to Maple on UNIX Platforms
The filesystem /common should be mounted from the UNIX server jeeves.itc.virginia.edu to the UNIX platforms that you are logged into. In addition, the directory for the appropriate platform (e.g., /linux) should also be mounted from jeeves.itc and a symbolic link created from the uva subdirectory of the platform directory (e.g. /linux/i386/glibc2.1/uva) to /uva on the host machine. This is done by default on all ITS maintained UNIX machines.
Equivalently, in bash users may try:
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1; maple
In tcsh this works:
setenv LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.4.1; maple
The environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL may be set in the script resource file if desired.
If you continue to get error messages or have other questions or problems, please contact ITS Research Computing Support in the Scholars' Lab (243-8800) in Alderman Library.
