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Matlab vs. Scilab: Rafael Brunner

The document compares the scientific computing software Matlab and Scilab, describing Scilab's origins, capabilities for linear algebra, programming, sparse matrices, filtering, and performance comparisons, and concludes that while similar to Matlab, Scilab is capable and can serve as a free, open-source alternative for scientific computing tasks.

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Matlab vs. Scilab: Rafael Brunner

The document compares the scientific computing software Matlab and Scilab, describing Scilab's origins, capabilities for linear algebra, programming, sparse matrices, filtering, and performance comparisons, and concludes that while similar to Matlab, Scilab is capable and can serve as a free, open-source alternative for scientific computing tasks.

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Matlab vs.

Scilab

Rafael Brunner
What‘s going on?
• Few words about Scilab‘s origin
• Introduction to Scilab:
- linear algebra
- programming
• Parts of my term work:
- sparse matrices
- Savitzky-Golay filter
- performance comparison
• My own experiences
Scilab
• developed since 1990 at INRIA /
ENPC (France)
• open source
• free of charge
• high quality toolboxes available
- artificial network
- serial port
• similar to Matlab... yes, but...
Demo
• Linear Algebra
- basics (how to enter matrices etc.)
- compute with matrices
- solving systems of equations
- hessenberg form
- LU-, QR-decomposition
- eigenvalues, -vectors
- SVD
Programming
• introduction / overview
• example: poisson2d_kron
Overview (1)
• for var = expr, statement; ...;
statement; end
• while expression, statements; end
• if expr then statements;
elseif expr then statements;
else statements;
end
Overview (2)
• select expr
case expr1 then instructions1
...
case exprn then instructionsn
[else instructions]
end
Overview (3)
• [lhs,rhs] = argn(0)
• error
• warning
Example (demo)
• poisson2d_kron.m  poisson2d_kron.sci
• mfile2sci
2D-Poisson matrix
Sparse matrices
• Three different algorithms to
generate the 2D-Poisson matrix:
- set the elements one by one
- block wise
- kronecker product
Performance comparison
Solving a system Ax=b
• in this case Ax = 1
• pcg (preconditioned conjugate
gradients method)
• Scilab does not provide a pcg
method  Scilin (IRISA)
Demo
• Solving Ax=1 for n=100
• 2D-Poisson matrix generated by
poisson2d_kron
Performance comparison
Savitzky-Golay Filter
• measured data (slowly varying and
corrupted by random noise)
• reconstruction of the underlying
smooth function
Savitzky-Golay Filter
(DEMO)
My own experiences
• editor
• translating
- build up new functions
- mfile2sci
Summary
• speed
• graphics
• signal processing
Is Scilab an alternative to
Matlab?
In my opinion:
Scilab is capable and can be
an alternative to Matlab.

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