Mathematica is... Here is the About Mathematica from the Mathematica web site.
You may access Mathematica, using line commands, from within a shell or any terminal session from perutz with the
math
command. telnet or rlogin to perutz and type the command to access the program. You may also access the program in this way by telnetting to perutz from your PC or Mac. If your environment isn't quite set up correctly, the exact path is /usr/local/bin/math.
You may access Mathematica, using the graphical front end, from any X-terminal session from perutz with the
mathematica
command. As of now, the SGI machines in C-221 (franklin, pauling, boys, woodward) are set up to run Mathematica in its graphical mode. telnet or rlogin to perutz from one of these machines, set the environment to display to the computer you are sitting at with
setenv DISPLAY franklin:0
then type
mathematica
to launch the program.
A new window will open into which you type Mathematica commands. Again, if your environment isn't quite set up correctly, the exact path is /usr/local/bin/mathematica.
In principle you may run this copy of Mathematica from any X-terminal session logged on to perutz. However, there are Mathematica specific fonts that are used by the front end that must be installed on the machines displaying Mathematica windows. For other SGI machines (and perhaps other UNIX machines) it's simply a matter of copying the relevant fonts to your machine prior to using the program. The following commands will accomplish that. (These commands assume that you have perutz:/usr NFS mounted on your UNIX machine as /perutz/usr.)
cd /usr/local
mkdir mathematica
cd mathematica
mkdir SystemFiles
cd SystemFiles
cp -r /perutz/usr/local/mathematica/SystemFiles/Fonts .
xset fp+ /usr/local/mathematica/SystemFiles/Fonts/Type1
xset fp rhash
You may also run this copy of Mathematica from your Macintosh or PC if you have an X-terminal emulator such as MacX or . X-terminal fonts must also be installed theseX-terminal emulators.
Another option for Macs and PCs is to purchase the Mathematica front end for around $200. This gives you the graphical interface but accesses the Mathematical kernal on perutz.
There is on-line documentation in the form of Mathematica notebooks in the /usr/local/mathematica/Documentation path on perutz. The Mathematica 3.0 Book and other hard copy documentation can be borrowed from Terry Gray. The book can also be purchased at a bookstore or via amazon.com for around $50.
The department's license allows for 2 Mathematica processes (2 front end and 2 kernel) to run simultaneously. Hopefully, this will prove adequate. Please don't leave a Mathematica session running unused.
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