MUESLI: a free numerical and graphical library

MUESLI library

What is MUESLI?

MUESLI is a free numerical and graphical library, written mainly in Fortran 95 and developped by Édouard Canot.

For a first introduction, see the User Guide.

The available release is numbered 2.17.12 and dated 2021-06-24.

for Linux systems, contrary to the past, only two Fortran 95 compilers are supported:

GNU gfortran, version ≥ 4.8 (version numbers 4.8 to 10 are ok)
INTEL ifort, version ≥ 13 (version numbers 11 and 12 may work, but are no longer supported)

whole unix sources archive

packages for Ubuntu

those for Fedora

for a Windows system, MUESLI is intended to be used under MinGW-w64; refer to this Windows page providing binary files for MinGW (32- or 64-bit).

MUESLI can be also used on Mac OS X. Recent versions of Mac OS X should be ok. Refer to this Darwin page for further information.

MUESLI needs also a C and a C++ compiler. GCC and INTEL actually constitute compiler suites, which provide their own C and C++ compilers.

BLAS / LAPACK must be available on the target machine. The following versions (older ones may or may not work) are recommended: 3.4.2 (Sep 25, 2012), 3.5.0 (Nov 16, 2013), 3.6.1 (Jun 18, 2016), 3.7.1 (Jun 25, 2017), 3.8.0 (Nov 12, 2017) or 3.9.1 (Apr 1, 2021).
They can be get here. Caution: versions 3.2.0 and 3.4.0 lead to either run-time error or wrong results in MUESLI. [For example, Mac OS X Yosemite provides Lapack-3.2.1, which is too old and not adapted to Muesli]
Moreover, the user should also fix the Lapack bug number 114 (a stack corruption may occur, see here; this holds for 3.4.2 and 3.5.0 versions only).
Sometimes, it may be necessary to compile yourself the Blas/Lapack library (some erroneous floating-point exceptions have been reported).

The numerical part (FML) contains more or less 400 user-available routines and around 3000 unitary tests. As far as we know, this whole numerical library doesn't contain any memory leak (thanks to valgrind).

However, it is not thread safe.

Documentation:

The Installation Guide and the Reference Manual can also be downloaded.

Recent news:

2021-06-24: Release of the 2.17.12 version. After a long time of development and a big jump in the numbering, this new release contains some major performance improvements in the graphic part FGL, especially a smooth behavior when using the interactive routines to scroll inside the figure (msPan) or to move the legend frame or other graphic objects with the mouse (msMoveLegend and the new routine msMoveGrobj). msDrawNow renamed to msRedrawFigure, and msColormapRange renamed to msColormapSize. The new routine msAnimation should give smoother animations on screen. New options added for msAxis. The numerical part FML has been also improved, by adding new routines (mfGetAllGrObj, mfGetTypeGrObj, ..., mfRandPoiss, mfGridFun) but be aware that some routines have seen their API changed (order or name of arguments), as msMeshGrid and msGradient. The only 3D graphic routine msSurf has been completely removed: Muesli FGL is now restricted to 2D plots only, but, as a partial compensation, msPcolor has new options to make projections of a surface in the three canonical directions of the 3D space.
2020-02-15: Release of the 2.15.11 version: Streamline algorithm has been improved (better reliability). Few bugs fixed.
2020-01-24: Release of the 2.15.10 version: apart many bugs (mfErfCInv, ...) and many improvements (prime numbers computation, msSet, msCAxis, msQuiver, msArrow, msPatch, ...), the following FGL routines have been added to Muesli: mfIsSorted, msStreamline, msTriStreamline and msTriMesh. Another modification concerns the complex numbers, which are now sorted first by module, then by phase angle.
2019-10-11: Added binary packages of the last version for Ubuntu and Fedora.
2019-10-02: Release of the 2.15.7 version: mfChol and msLU are now able to process a (1,1) dense matrix, i.e. a scalar. The internal library SuiteSparse has been upgraded to the 5.4.0 version; METIS is no longer used. Few improvements in the msSet routine. The NULL driver is fixed to support the same number of simultaneous opened windows as the X11 driver. New routine mfFun2, which is similar to mfFun (apply a function element-wise to mfArray) but using two arguments. Memory leaks suppressed in mfMin and mfMax.
2019-05-15: Upload of a new archive for the source, dated 2019-05-15, which fix a bug in pgline when using GCC-9.1. Added binary versions for Ubuntu, Fedora and Mac OS X.
2019-05-11: Release of the 2.15.5 version: search of zeros of function now uses the Dekker algorithm (as in Matlab) instead of the classical Newton one. Compilation modes becomes DEBUG/OPTIM instead of DEBUG/RELEASE. ODE and DAE solvers support SPD (Symmetric and Positive Definite) jacobian matrices, and have improved CIC (Consistent Initial Conditions) computation when using sparse and banded jacobian. mfMin and mfMax Muesli fonctions are now consistent when using NaN values: by default NaNs are discarded (as in Matlab), but these special IEEE values can be taken into account via the optional argument 'nanflag'. Many small fixes in FML and FGL.
older news can be found here.

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Last page modification: 2021-06-25