The ACE project Cd-Rom

This page contains some informations about the ACE project Cd-Rom. The full ACE project is available on Cd-Rom. It includes all sources of ACE 3.0, both as tar files and also as extracted archive. The tar files give you a way to get ACE sources and move them to your system in a efficient manner, while extracted archives give you the possibility to install ACE on your system without copying sources of ACE on your disk. It can be useful if you don't have as much free space on your disk as needed (about 4Mb) to copy source files.

The ACE Cd-Rom also includes pre-installed versions of ACE 3.0. This allows you to install ACE on your system by simply copying the "compiled" Maple files on your disk. These files are available as tar archive files, but also as extracted archive files. This has the advantage to give you a way to test or use ACE without installing it on your system. This can be done by giving the exact path to the Cd-Rom directory where these files are stored: this is easily done in your .mapleinit file (HOME directory) for Unix systems. Your .mapleinit file should contain the following lines (copy the corresponding .mapleinit model file):

#
## ACE package...
#
####################################################################
#                                                                  #
# Modify the following lines  so that the ACELib variable contains #
# the directory where ACE compiled files  are  stored. It  depends #
# on the directory where the  Cd-Rom  has  been  mounted  on  your #
# system. By default,  we  suppose  it to  be /cdrom. We have also #
# supposed that we have Maple V release  3  for  Unix. Change  the #
# next three lines according to your system.                       #
#                                                                  #
# Then, remove the # in the line:                                  #
#                                                                  #
# # _liblist:=[ACELib, ACELibSeq]:                                 #
#                                                                  #
# when using Maple V release 1. Otherwise (Maple  V  release 2,  3 #
# and 4), remove the # in the line:                                #
#                                                                  #
# # libname:=ACELib, ACELibSeq, libname:                           #
#                                                                  #
# at the end of this .mapleinit model file.                        #
#                                                                  #
####################################################################
                     #
                     #
                  #######
                   ##### 
                    ###  
                     #   
#
CDROM_PATH:=		`/cdrom`:
MAPLE_RELEASE:=		3:
SYSTEM_TYPE:=		`UNIX`:
#
ACELib:=cat(CDROM_PATH,
            `/ACE/INSTALLED/3.0`,
            SYSTEM_TYPE,
            `MapleVR`,
            MAPLE_RELEASE):
#
ACELibSeq:=SGLib, SPLib, SYMFLib, TABLib, TYPLib, HEKALib,  ERRLib,
           CLGLib, TEXLib, SGALib, NCALib, IDCALib, NCSFLib, FMLib,
           BNLib, BNALib, CGLib, COMPLib, PARTLib, FREELib, SFALib:
#
BNLib  :=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:               BNALib :=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:
CLGLib :=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:               CGLib  :=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:
COMPLib:=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:               ERRLib :=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:
FMLib  :=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:               FREELib:=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:
HEKALib:=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:               IDCALib:=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:
NCALib :=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:               NCSFLib:=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:
PARTLib:=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:               SFALib :=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:
SGALib :=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:               SGLib  :=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:
SPLib  :=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:               SYMFLib:=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:
TABLib :=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:               TEXLib :=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:
TYPLib :=``.ACELib.`/ACE`:
#
## Where to find the packages...for Maple V Release 1
#
# _liblist:=[ACELib, ACELibSeq]:
#
## Where to find the packages...for Maple V Release > 1
#
# libname:=ACELib, ACELibSeq, libname:

The Cd-Rom also includes some related papers, and a mathematical manual explaining many algorithms used in ACE. It also contains the Html and postscript documentations.

Some data have been stored on the Cd-Rom. For instance, there are TeX files and Maple files that present some tables, of polynomials for example, that have been computed with ACE during many hours and even many days long.

It also contains all sources of previous versions of ACE, that are ACE 1.0 and ACE 2.0, together with their corresponding Html and postscript documentations.