Re: Mathematica 8.0.4 now available
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- Subject: [mg122605] Re: Mathematica 8.0.4 now available
- From: DmitryG <einschlag at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 03:45:08 -0500 (EST)
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On Oct 26, 2:41 pm, Wolfram Research <i... at wolfram.com> wrote: > We are pleased to announce the release of Mathematica8.0.4. This > new version streamlines deployment to the Computable Document > Format (CDF) with a new interactive wizard and new functions for > programmatic deployment. Key usability, stability, and security > enhancements include: > > * New menu options and an interactive wizard for deploying to CDF > * New functions CDFInformation and CDFDeploy for programmatically > deploying CDF files > * New download progress indicator for the CDF browser plugin > * Improved stability, speed, and security of the CDF browser > plugin > * Tested under Mac OS X Lion > * Improved memory use of the Share function when storing large > sets of data > * Updated MKL library to improve performance > * New syntax coloring to warn about use of Module variable in > Dynamic > * Performance improvements to citation functions > * Improved behavior of optimized variables in compiled > conditional statements > * Improved front end behavior when saving untitled notebooks > under new versions of Linux > > Users who have Mathematica 8.0.0 or 8.0.1 with active Premier > Service will receive email from us in the next few days with > instructions on how to download their free updates. > > Sincerely, > > Wolfram Research > Customer Supporthttp://www.wolfram.com/support I have tested Mathematica 8.0.4 for CUDA because now I have a new laptop with a new nVidia Geforce 555M card. As before, CUDADot is slower than regular Dot on reals, so I do not know how I could benefit from GPU calculations Another disappointment is that 8.0.4 does not recognize any C compiles except of the Intel C compiler and a Generic C compiler that are listed by CCompilers[Full]. There are no other compilers in the list. I have upgraded to Mathematica 8.0.4 under Windows7 with the new laptop and now I cannot use Miscosoft Visual C++ compiler. Also I have upgraded on my Mac Pro and now I cannot use the GCC compiler that I was using with Mathematica 8.0.1. I do not know whether a better CDF support and maybe a better MKL library compensate for the loss of C compilers and thus whether an upgrade to 8.0.4 makes sense. As for GPU computations, it seems we have to wait for Mathematica 9. Dmitry