Maple is a computer environment for doing mathematics. Symbolical, numerical, and graphical computations can all be done with Maple. It is a procedural language, combining an efficient programming language with a bevy of predefined mathematical commands.

The breadth of Maple’s functionality is considerable. For example topics covered range from calculus and linear algebra to differential equations, geometry, and logic.

Maple’s home page is at http://www.maplesoft.com/.

Maple is supported on Clusters Atlas2, Atlas3, Atlas4 and MobileVisLab. The current version is 12.0, which is the latest version released in May 2008.

To open graphics Maple interface, enter command “xmaple” at the command line prompt. Command “maple” will open the text-based interface of Maple.

Graphics Maple interface: xmaple

Text-based Maple interface: maple