MATLAB Release Notes

Mathematics Features

MATLAB 7.0.4 adds the following mathematics features and enhancements:

New Vendor BLAS Used for Linear Algebra in MATLAB

MATLAB uses Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) for its vector inner product, matrix-vector product, matrix-matrix product, and triangular solvers in \. MATLAB also uses BLAS behind its core numerical linear algebra routines from Linear Algebra Package (LAPACK), which are used in functions like chol, lu, qr, and within the linear system solver \.

Starting in this release

• On Macintosh, MATLAB now uses the Accelerate framework.
• On 64-bit Linux, MATLAB uses Intel® Math Kernel Library (MKL) 7.0.1 on Intel chips, and AMD Core Math Library (ACML) 2.0 on AMD chips.

Desktop Tools and Development Environment Features

Programming Features

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