[sage-support] running maxima within sage and parallel computing

2009-05-07 Thread chand sarat 
Dear All,
I am not a software programmer. It is possible that this question is not
rightly phrased.
I use Maxima on a Ubuntu 9.04 i386 machine for symbolic computation tasks
that arise in macroeconomics.
I am given to understand that Maxima cannot exploit parallel computing at
present while Sage can. I wish to know whether if i use Sage to run Maxima
on a multicore computer (with a cpu such as AMD Phenom II X4 955 and related
components that i shortly intend to set up) I will be able to gain in terms
of computing speed with the parallel computing prowess of Sage.
C. Saratchand

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[sage-support] outdated version of Sage in Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-04 Thread chand sarat 
Dear All,
It is a fact that for a number of scientific packages, Ubuntu does offer
fairly outdated packages:
1. Current Sage package: 3.4.1 and the version offered by Ubuntu 9.04 is
Sage 3.0.5.
2. Current Maxima package: 5.18. and the version offered by Ubuntu 9.04 is
Maxima 5.13.
3. Current Texlive package: 2008 and the version offered by Ubuntu 9.04 is
Texlive 2007.
It seems to be that Canonical's key focus is to provide a set of up to date
packages including office packages (openoffice.org), web browser (firefox)
etc. while the up-tpdateness of scientific packages are more volunteer
dependent.
In the case of Maxima, Istvan Blahota (
http://zeus.nyf.hu/~blahota/maxima/jaunty/) has compiled deb packages for
Ubuntu 9.04 conforming to the the latest version of Maxima namely 5.18 for
both i386 and amd64 architectures; moreover each of them has been compiled
with both CLisp and SBCL.
It would be great if someone from the Sage team can do the same for Ubuntu
i.e. provide deb packages of the latest version of Sage for both i386 and
amd64 architectures.
Yours,
C. Saratchand

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