Newsletters December 2011

December 2011

Welcome to our December 2011 Newsletter. This year has flown by, and with the OPTI-NUM team growing in the coming months, the end of the year does not appear to be slowing down at all. I hope you'll take the time to browse our last newsletter for the year.

This edition of the newsletter provides links to Release 2011b Highlights, as well as online resources available to help you learn more about, or work better with, MATLAB and Simulink.

We welcome any discussion on these articles.

Dean Redelinghuys
Director

Release 2011b - Highlights

Every year, MathWorks hosts Virtual Conferences, online events where MathWorks and other speakers present seminars delivered right to your desktop. In the live sessions, you can ask questions, interact with others across the globe through Networking Lounges and ask questions of MathWorks specialists at virtual booths in the Exhibit Hall.

Understanding that some people are not able to view live events (due to work commitments, or other technical issues) MathWorks makes the Virtual Conference presentations available as "on-demand" resources after the live sessions are concluded.

You can view the 2011 Virtual Conference presentations from the following links:

• MATLAB Signal Processing Virtual Conference 2011
• MATLAB Computational Finance Virtual Conference 2011

MathWorks Virtual Conferences – on demand

OPTI-NUM solutions hosts a number of seminars throughout the year. A series of industry-focussed seminars have included local users talking about how they use MATLAB and Simulink to solve their Technical Computing and Model-Based Design challenges. We have recorded those seminars to make that material available to those who could not attend, and as a refresher for those who did attend. These recordings have proven to be popular, and we will continue to provide recorded seminar content for our major seminars.

Recordings of the presentations can be found at the following links (registration required):

• Defence Day 2010: Held in September 2010, with content from MathWorks UK, Reutech Radar Systems and Armscor.
• Finance Day 2011: Held in March 2011, featuring content from MathWorks Spain, Nedbank and Wits University Computational Finance group.

Would you like to present your MATLAB- or Simulink-based work at our upcoming conferences? Contact us with a short description of your work.

OPTI-NUM solutions seminars – on demand

The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) is a major initiative of the Department of Science and Technology, consisting of three systems of computer clusters, located in Cape Town and connected to academic institutions through high-speed networks.

Through collaboration with CHPC, OPTI-NUM solutions has made a 128-worker MATLAB Distributed Computing Server available for a trial period. This trial is available to any academic user for testing purposes. Successful trials will influence any decisions by CHPC to make MATLAB available to academic users on an ongoing basis.

For more information about CHPC, click here. For information on how to use MATLAB on the CHPC cluster, click here.

Featured User Story

Our featured user story comes from Anglo American Platinum, who have been using a MATLAB-based monitoring, analysis and reporting system to improve across their 20 geographically dispersed plants in South Africa.

Read more about how the Anglo Platinum team use MATLAB to monitor the performance of their plants across South Africa.

Do you have a story you would like to tell about how MATLAB or Simulink is being used in your work? Contact Carlette to discuss publishing your story in our newsletters and on our web site.

Events

As the year draws to a close, we are in planning for events in 2011. We already have workshops and training courses arranged for early in 2011. Look out for further announcements next year. As always, we invite you to view MathWorks live and recorded online seminars.

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