Matlab/Octave

For the last phase of this course, we will develop software using the octave (almost identical to the proprietary software matlab) programming language. Octave calls ATLAS BLAS and thus should approach theoretical peak machine performance. This problem is designed to familiarize you with this language and to verify the high performance attained using the language.

A very good introduction and reference for octave is http://www.octave.org/doc/octave_toc.html. If you are not already familiar with the language, you should read and try the examples in Section 1, ``A Brief Introduction to Octave'' of this document.