Grove
The new grove currently runs Maple version 12.0
Maple is an interactive symbolic math package that can be used for the manipulation of algebra among other things. Maple 12.0 is installed on maple.grove.ufl.edu. (The previous Grove had version 7.)
Extensive documentation is available online in your Maple session If you have the Maple graphical window open, click on the Help button. If you have a text-mode session, type "?" and press Enter.
The Maple Share Library, a collection of user-contributed Maple routines and packages, no longer ships with Maple, but is available on the web at http://www.maplesoft.com. Select "User Community".
You will need to connect to maple.grove.ufl.edu with this secure information.
Using an ssh client, (such as putty), connect to maple.grove.ufl.edu.To run Maple on your Grove account using a graphical interface:
- On a Windows PC --
- If you already have an X client (such as X-Win32) configure it to use an ssh connection to Grove and type maple & at the command prompt.
- If you do NOT have an X client on your PC and you want to run Maple on Grove in graphical mode, we suggest you use cygwin/X and putty to connect to maple.grove.ufl.edu. Both of these products are free and open source.
- Once you have the client installed, start a terminal session.
At the command prompt on your local machine:
ssh -X Groveusername@maple.grove.ufl.edu - On Grove, at the command prompt type: maple &
- On a Mac --
- In the labs, at the command prompt: ssh -X Groveusername@maple.grove.ufl.edu
- Under 10.5 from home, X support is a checkbox at install time.
Under 10.4, you must select the X client on the CD that came with your Mac (by default this is NOT automatically installed).
- Once you have the client installed, start a terminal session.
At the command prompt on your local machine:
ssh -X Groveusername@maple.grove.ufl.edu - On Grove, at the command prompt type: maple &
- On a Linux machine you'll already have SSH and X installed
- start a terminal session.
- At the command prompt on your local machine:
ssh -X Groveusername@maple.grove.ufl.edu
- On Grove, at the command prompt type: maple &
To run Maple on your Grove account in command line mode:
- At the command prompt on maple.grove.ufl.edu type: maple. If Maple can't establish a graphical connection, it will fall back to command-line interactive mode.
- The command prompt for Maple is a single angle bracket: >
- Type quit to exit command-line interactive mode.