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I installed Maple 16 on Windows 7, 64 bit, french edition, last week. Everything works fine, except that suddenly the Maple 16 icon has been replaced by the anonymous exec file on windows. Tried to restart, but the icon is gone...

Does anyone else get this problem ?

Hi,

I am using Maple 13 under Windows 7. I have been using Maple for quite a while now, and all of a sudden Maple has decided to start playing funny games.

Whenever I go into the Maple Portal and click on one of the hyperlinks, the Maple session locks up. The first time this had happened, I had been in the Maple Portal for half an hour.

It doesnt respond to any clicks, including trying to close the Maple window. The only way to close it at this point is to crash it via the Task Manager....

Hi,

I am using Maple 13 (hoping to upgrade soon) under Windows 7.

The open file dialog looks a bit weird, as per the illustration. Is this a known bug, and has it been fixed up in subsequent versions of Maple ?

thanks,
Andrew

I have an older tablet PC on which I recently used Windows Journal for handwriting and storing my lecture notes (on the swivel screen with a stylus). However, Windows Journal is very basic (doesn't interact with Maple or anything else other than pasting images into it) and has very limited drawing capabilities (rectangles, ellipses, and only horizontal lines).

What tablet PC apps do you recommend for handwriting, drawing, etc. that interact well with Maple

Hi
I run Maple 15 on an Acer laptop with Windows 7 and have the following problem:

When my Maple documents become "too" long, some of the vectors I have created seem to become tables instead (without me doing anything) rendering vector multiplications and additions/subtractions impossible (they'll throw an error; something like it not being possible to multiply a vector and a table. As if one of the vectors in my multiplication has become a table). Should it...

I tried to use control+C and control+V to copy and paste equations from maple to MS word under windows 7, it works fine. But when it comes to the Mac OS, it generate some meaningless codes. Is there any way to do it under Mac OS?

In case if you like notepad++  under windows, and still didn't do smth like that then this is for you .userDefineLang.zip

Unpack to notepad++ folder. In case if you already had had other
own language then just copy "Maple language" section.

Yesterday I wrote a post that began,

"I realized recently that, while 64bit Maple 15 on Windows (XP64, 7) is now using accelerated BLAS from Intel's MKL, the Operating System environment variable OMP_NUM_THREADS is not being set automatically."

But that first sentence is about where it stopped being correct, as far as how I was interpreting the performance on 64bit Maple on Windows. So I've rewritten the whole post, and this is the revision.

I concluded that, by setting the Windows operating system environment variable OMP_NUM_THREADS to 4, performance would double on a quad core i7. I even showed timings to help establish that. And since I know that memory management and dynamic linking can cause extra overhead, I re-ran all my examples in freshly launched GUI sessions, with the user-interface completely closed between examples. But I got caught out in a mistake, nonetheless. The problem was that there is extra real-time cost to having my machine's Windows operating system dynamically open the MKL dll the very first time after bootup.

So my examples done first after bootup were at a disadvantage. I knew that I could not look just at measured cpu time, since for such threaded applications that reports as some kind of sum of cycles for all threads. But I failed to notice the real-time measurements were being distorted by the cost of loading the dlls the first time. And that penalty is not necessarily paid for each freshly launched, completely new Maple session. So my measurements were not fair.

Here is some illustration of the extra real-time cost, which I was not taking into account. I'll do Matrix-Matrix multiplication for a 1x1 example, to try and show just how much this extra cost is unrelated to the actual computation. In these examples below, I've done a full reboot on Windows 7 where so annotated. The extra time cost for the very first load of the dynamic MKL libraries can be from 1 to over 3 seconds. That's about the same as the cpu time this i7 takes to do the full 3000x3000 Matrix multiplication! Hence the confusion.

Roman brought up hyperthreading in his comment on the original post. So part of redoing all these examples, with full restarts between them, is testing each case both with and without hyperthreading enabled (in the BIOS).

Quad core Intel i7. (four physical cores)

Hyperthreading disabled in BIOS
-------------------------------

> restart: # actual OS reboot
> getenv(OMP_NUM_THREADS);   # NULL, unset in OS

> CodeTools:-Usage( Matrix([[3.]]) . Matrix([[3.]]) ): # initialize external libs
memory used=217.18KiB, alloc change=127.98KiB, cpu time=219.00ms, real time=3.10s

> CodeTools:-Usage( Matrix([[3.]]) . Matrix([[3.]]) ):
memory used=9.46KiB, alloc change=0 bytes, cpu time=0ns, real time=0ns


> restart: # actual OS reboot
> getenv(OMP_NUM_THREADS);
                              "4"

> CodeTools:-Usage( Matrix([[3.]]) . Matrix([[3.]]) ): # initialize external libs
memory used=216.91KiB, alloc change=127.98KiB, cpu time=140.00ms, real time=2.81s

> CodeTools:-Usage( Matrix([[3.]]) . Matrix([[3.]]) ):
memory used=9.46KiB, alloc change=0 bytes, cpu time=0ns, real time=0ns


Hyperthreading enabled in BIOS
------------------------------

> restart: # actual OS reboot
> getenv(OMP_NUM_THREADS);    # NULL, unset in OS

> CodeTools:-Usage( Matrix([[3.]]) . Matrix([[3.]]) ): # initialize external libs
memory used=217.00KiB, alloc change=127.98KiB, cpu time=202.00ms, real time=2.84s

> CodeTools:-Usage( Matrix([[3.]]) . Matrix([[3.]]) ):
memory used=9.46KiB, alloc change=0 bytes, cpu time=0ns, real time=0ns


> restart: # actual OS reboot
> getenv(OMP_NUM_THREADS);
                              "4"

> CodeTools:-Usage( Matrix([[3.]]) . Matrix([[3.]]) ): # initialize external libs
memory used=215.56KiB, alloc change=127.98KiB, cpu time=187.00ms, real time=1.12s

> CodeTools:-Usage( Matrix([[3.]]) . Matrix([[3.]]) ):
memory used=9.46KiB, alloc change=0 bytes, cpu time=0ns, real time=0ns

Having established that the first use after reboot was incurring a real time penalty of a few seconds, I redid the timings in order to gauge the benefit of having OMP_NUM_THREADS set appropriately. These too were done with and without hyperthreading enabled. The timings below appear to indicate that slightly bettern performance can be had for this example in the case that hyperthreading is disabled. The timings also appear to indicate that having OMP_NUM_THREADS unset results in performance competitive with having it set to the number of physical cores.

Hyperthreading disabled in BIOS
-------------------------------

> restart:
> CodeTools:-Usage( Matrix([[3.]]) . Matrix([[3.]]) ): # initialize external libs
memory used=217.84KiB, alloc change=127.98KiB, cpu time=141.00ms, real time=142.00ms

> getenv(OMP_NUM_THREADS);  # NULL, unset in OS

> M:=LinearAlgebra:-RandomMatrix(3000,datatype=float[8]):
> CodeTools:-Usage( M . M ):
memory used=68.67MiB, alloc change=68.74MiB, cpu time=7.50s, real time=1.92s


> restart:
> CodeTools:-Usage( Matrix([[3.]]) . Matrix([[3.]]) ): # initialize external libs
memory used=217.84KiB, alloc change=127.98KiB, cpu time=141.00ms, real time=141.00ms

> getenv(OMP_NUM_THREADS);
                              "1"

> M:=LinearAlgebra:-RandomMatrix(3000,datatype=float[8]):
> CodeTools:-Usage( M . M ):
memory used=68.67MiB, alloc change=68.74MiB, cpu time=7.38s, real time=7.38s


> restart:
> CodeTools:-Usage( Matrix([[3.]]) . Matrix([[3.]]) ): # initialize external libs
memory used=217.11KiB, alloc change=127.98KiB, cpu time=125.00ms, real time=125.00ms

> getenv(OMP_NUM_THREADS);
                              "4"

> M:=LinearAlgebra:-RandomMatrix(3000,datatype=float[8]):
> CodeTools:-Usage( M . M ):
memory used=68.67MiB, alloc change=68.74MiB, cpu time=7.57s, real time=1.94s



Hyperthreading enabled in BIOS
------------------------------

> restart:
> CodeTools:-Usage( Matrix([[3.]]) . Matrix([[3.]]) ): # initialize external libs
memory used=216.57KiB, alloc change=127.98KiB, cpu time=125.00ms, real time=125.00ms

> getenv(OMP_NUM_THREADS);  # NULL, unset in OS

> M:=LinearAlgebra:-RandomMatrix(3000,datatype=float[8]):
> CodeTools:-Usage( M . M ):
memory used=68.67MiB, alloc change=68.74MiB, cpu time=8.46s, real time=2.15s


> restart:
> CodeTools:-Usage( Matrix([[3.]]) . Matrix([[3.]]) ): # initialize external libs
memory used=216.80KiB, alloc change=127.98KiB, cpu time=125.00ms, real time=125.00ms

> getenv(OMP_NUM_THREADS);
                              "1"

> M:=LinearAlgebra:-RandomMatrix(3000,datatype=float[8]):
> CodeTools:-Usage( M . M ):
memory used=68.67MiB, alloc change=68.74MiB, cpu time=7.35s, real time=7.35s


> restart:
> CodeTools:-Usage( Matrix([[3.]]) . Matrix([[3.]]) ): # initialize external libs
memory used=216.80KiB, alloc change=127.98KiB, cpu time=125.00ms, real time=125.00ms

> getenv(OMP_NUM_THREADS);  # NULL, unset in OS
                              "4"

> M:=LinearAlgebra:-RandomMatrix(3000,datatype=float[8]):
> CodeTools:-Usage( M . M ):
memory used=68.67MiB, alloc change=68.74MiB, cpu time=8.56s, real time=2.15s


> restart:
> CodeTools:-Usage( Matrix([[3.]]) . Matrix([[3.]]) ): # initialize external libs
memory used=216.80KiB, alloc change=127.98KiB, cpu time=125.00ms, real time=125.00ms

> getenv(OMP_NUM_THREADS);
                              "8"

> M:=LinearAlgebra:-RandomMatrix(3000,datatype=float[8]):
> CodeTools:-Usage( M . M ):
memory used=68.67MiB, alloc change=68.74MiB, cpu time=8.69s, real time=2.23s

With all those new timing measurements it appears that having to set the global environment variable OMP_NUM_THREADS to the number of physical cores may not be necessary. The performance is comparable, when that variable is left unset. So, while this post is now a non-story, it's interesting to know.

And the lesson about comparitive timings is also useful. Sometimes, even complete GUI/kernel relaunch is not enough to get a level and fair field for comparison.

If you have been logged in at mapleprimes in the last week you will know that I'm currently going through an obsession with plots. Indeed, some deadline is looming and it is all very stressful. For reference, and hopefully it may be of use to someone somewhere someday, I produce 2D plots with Standard GUI in the postscript format using plotsetup(ps). I'm on Windows for this. (3D plots aren't so hot with Standard GUI)

I use LaTeX for my documents. I used to insert postscript...

Hi

I have a computer of CPU Core i7. I want to use all power of CPU during implementing MAPLE software. But when I execute MAPLE, only a part of power of CPU is used. I can check it by "Windows task manager". "CPU Usage" of this is so less than 100%.

How I can apply all cores of CPU in analyses by MAPLE?

The Maple documentation claims that Alt-Shift-F6 allows you to cycle between open windows in Maple. Well, it doesn't. So, I'm wondering what shortcut (if any) allows you to do this. Also, why is the documentation misleading?

Hyperlinks ars restricted to URL, Mail, Maple, etc. For Windows I would like to see a new type called Double Click.

The location and file name would be entered. Executing this Hyperlink would be just like double clicking the file in Windows. The file could be anything as long as the underlying software is installed on the computer.

The file could be video, mp3, image, etc. This would have no restrictions.

It would help to make Maple even more multimedia.

I cannot get Maple 9 Student Edistion to run in Windows 7. I've tried running it in compatibility mode, but it still doesn't work. Are there any software updates or patches available? Is there another Solution?

Hello. I am trying to do a project for school. But the following code is causing Windows 7(x64) to error. First, I get a message from mserver.exe saying: mserver has stopped working.

I click "Close the program" and I get "Kernel connection has been lost."

This is happening whenever I run the for loop in the attached code. I must get this fixed, people are counting on my code, but I do not know how to fix Maple. I am using Maple 14, build 479326 in Worksheet mode.

A couple of days ago I found out that gzread from the zlib library can be used for fast reading of binary files in Maple from the disk to memory - about 100 times faster than readbytes - something like in the following simplified example, 

A:=Array(1..2^26,99,datatype=integer[1]):

time(writebytes("A",A));close("A");

                                9.360

B:=Array(1..2^26,1,datatype=integer[1]):
time(readbytes("A",B));close("A");

                                8.065
B[1],B[-1];

                                99, 99

myreadbytes:=proc(f)
local gzopen, gzread, gzclose, n, p, A;
gzopen:=define_external('gzopen',
    'path'::string,
    'mode'::string,
    'RETURN'::integer[4],
    'LIB'="zlibwapi.dll");
gzread:=define_external('gzread',
    'file'::integer[4],
    'buf'::REF(ARRAY(datatype=integer[1])),    
    'len'::integer[4],
    'RETURN'::integer[4],
    'LIB'="zlibwapi.dll");
gzclose:=define_external('gzclose',
    'file'::integer[4],
    'RETURN'::integer[4],
    'LIB'="zlibwapi.dll");
n:=FileTools:-Size(f);
A:=Array(1..n,datatype=integer[1]);
try p:=gzopen(f,"rb");
if gzread(p,A,n)=n
then return A end if
finally gzclose(p)
end try
end proc:
time(assign(C=myreadbytes("A")));

                                0.062

C[1],C[-1];

                                99, 99

'time(myreadbytes("A"))'$5;

                  0.078, 0.062, 0.046, 0.046, 0.046

E:=Array(1..2^26,2,datatype=integer[1]):
time(ArrayTools:-Copy(A,E));

                                0.093

That needs some tweaking, because that works only on uncompressed files. If a file ("A" in this example) was gzipped, then the gzread would ungzip n (uncompressed) bytes in it in this example, instead of copying it into the memory - but it is not a big deal, in general.

Does anybody know about a similar replacement for writebytes? gzwrite doesn't work for copying (it compresses the array.)

I used the zlibwapi.dll library from http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/index.html, it is a version of zlib 1.2.5 (written by Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark Adler) built by Gilles Vollant. The code is for a 32-bit system (Windows). That should work in 32-bit Linux after replacing that dll with standard libz.so.1, as well as on 64-bit systems after replacing integer[4] with integer[8] in most places.