MuPAD

MuPAD stands for Multi Processing Algebra Data Tool and is the computer algebra system (CAS) developed at the "Institut für Automatisierung und Instrumentelle Mathematik (AUTOMATH)" at the University of Paderborn.

MuPAD is a general purpose CAS with hypertext online help and a powerful graphic tool. Often when people hear about it for the first time they ask us...

Why yet another CAS ?

We think MuPAD is not yet another CAS because it has some special features that may (by now) not be found in other systems :

Parallelism

MuPAD is designed as a parallel CA system. The reason for this is the requirement of a system that operates efficiently on very large data. The aim of development is to implement not only a multi-processor version but also a distributed system for heterogeneous computer networks, according to the typical hardware equipment of a university.

Domains

Domains are the key to object oriented programming in MuPAD. It is a feature of the kernel and allows users to defined their own data types. Based on domains, MuPAD provides a library package to simplify the construction of new algebraic structures.

Modules

Dynamic modules are special kind of library package, implemented in the programming language C and dynamically (un)linked during runtime. Users are able to program their own modules while using all features of the MuPAD kernel and the underlying operating system.