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Paged Matrix Functions in MATLAB (2024 edition) 9

Back in 2021, Loren Shure posted an article that introduced the first page-wise matrix functions in MATLAB: A page-wise matrix multiply pagemtimes, along with page-wise transpose pagetranspose, and... read more >>

How we made a better backslash in MATLAB R2024a 4

Few things say 'MATLAB' better than the backslash. So good, we put it on a T-shirt.As most people will be aware, the backslash operator solves a system of linear equations. That is, it finds the x... read more >>

Life in the fast lane: Making MATLAB even faster on Apple Silicon with Apple Accelerate 11

Up to 3.7x faster Matrix-Matrix multiplication, 2x faster LU factorisation, 1.7x faster Cholesky decomposition and the potential for many more speed-ups across different areas of linear algebra in... read more >>

Quantum computing in MATLAB R2023b: On the desktop and in the cloud 4

Back in May of this year i attended the ISC High Performance Computing conference with a few other colleagues from MathWorks and was astonished at the number of booths related to various quantum... read more >>

Linear Algebra in MATLAB: Trying out AMD’s AOCL 10

In R2022a, MathWorks started shipping AMD’s AOCL alongside Intel’s MKL in MATLAB.  This article explains what these are and why you might care about them. BLAS and LAPACK A lot of modern technical... read more >>