The MathWorks News & Notes - June 2007

Welcome to The MathWorks News & Notes

As a long-time user of MATLAB® and Simulink®, I have always enjoyed learning what other users are doing with the products. The number of new and interesting applications of MathWorks tools continues to astonish me.

This issue of The MathWorks News & Notes features a revolutionary new field in the midst of a transformation. Systems biology combines science and engineering principles, enabling researchers not only to better understand biological systems, but to design and control them as well. A new product, SimBiology®, provides a customized environment for system biologists to model, simulate, and analyze biochemical pathways.

This issue showcases the diversity of applications of MATLAB and Simulink. Learn about research projects ranging from avalanche modeling and simulation to studying the sun’s atmosphere and simulating seismic waves. Read about advances in engineering complex systems, including fuel cell controllers, automated test systems for aircraft, and rail tunnel ventilation systems.

You will also find practical tips on optimizing your memory use in MATLAB, allowing you to solve large problems more efficiently.

As always, don’t miss Cleve’s Corner. This time, Cleve explains how the proliferation of multicore systems and clusters has set the stage for parallel computing with MATLAB, and describes benchmark experiments that combine multithreaded and distributed parallelism.

I hope you enjoy this edition. We are always interested in feedback. Send your comments to newsnotes@mathworks.com.

Roy Lurie
Vice President of Engineering, MATLAB Products