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=Other open-source data analysis packages=
==Geophysical software==
[[Other open-source geophysical packages]]. Briefly discuss each of them. Mention "dictionaries" from them to m8r where available (should attempt to have dictionaries for all of them)

==Other tools==
There are many other useful open-source or public domain software tools in the domain of applied mathematics, that can be used complementary to Madagascar. A few common examples, in alphabetical order, are:

* [http://www.alglib.net/ ALGLIB]: a highly portable numerical analysis and data processing library;
* [http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/ ARPACK] ("The ARnoldi PACKage"): a library written in FORTRAN 77 for solving large-scale eigenvalue problems;
* [http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/ ATLAS] ("Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software"): a linear algebra library, implementing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Linear_Algebra_Subprograms BLAS] APIs for C and Fortran77;
* [http://www.oonumerics.org/blitz/ Blitz++]: a C++ class library for scientific computing which provides performance on par with Fortran 77/90;
* [http://www.dune-project.org/ DUNE] ("Distributed and Unified Numerics Environment"): a modular toolbox for solving partial differential equations with grid-based methods. It supports the easy implementation of methods like Finite Elements, Finite Volumes, and also Finite Differences. 
* [http://fftw.org/ FFTW] ("The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West"): Hardware-adaptive FFT libraries;
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ GNU Scientific Library]: a C library for numerical calculations in many branches of applied mathematics and science;
* [http://gts.sourceforge.net/index.html GNU Triangulated Surface Library]: a library providing a set of useful functions to deal with 3D surfaces meshed with interconnected triangles;
* [http://www.netlib.org/lapack/ LAPACK] ("The Linear Algebra PACKage"): a collection of routines for solving systems of simultaneous linear equations, least-squares solutions of linear systems of equations, eigenvalue problems, and singular value problems;
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINPACK MINPACK]: a library of FORTRAN subroutines for the solving of systems of nonlinear equations, or the least squares minimization of the residual of a set of linear or nonlinear equations;
* [http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-2/ PETSc] ("the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific computation"): A set of serial and parallel, linear and nonlinear, solvers for large-scale, sparse linear and nonlinear systems of equations;
* [http://www.scipy.org/ SciPY] ("Scientific Python"): a toolbox for scientific computing in Python;
* [http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/libs/numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm uBLAS]: a C++ template class library that provides BLAS level 1, 2, 3 functionality for dense, packed and sparse matrices.

Most [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] pages of the above libraries are valuable resources, as is Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numerical_analysis_software list of numerical analysis software]. Other libraries and standalone programs are available through the [http://www.netlib.org/ Netlib repository] and indexed by the [http://gams.nist.gov/ Guide to Available Mathematical Software]. The U.S. DOE's [http://acts.nersc.gov/ ACTS Collection] is another valuable repository.

==Madagascar in conferences and publications==
The content of the [[Conferences]] and [[Publications]] pages. A mention about the reproducible documents that are listed in the "Papers and books included in the Madagascar distribution" sections.
==Madagascar project system administrator's guide==
[[Mediawiki installation, customization and operation]]