The GSL Shell Project

GSL shell is an interactive command line interface that gives easy access to a collection of numeric algorithms and functions based on the GNU Scientific Library (GSL). GSL Shell is able to work with matrices or vectors to perform linear algebra operations.

Fast

GSL Shell is based on the outstanding Lua JIT compiler LuaJIT2. Thanks to LuaJIT2 the scripts defined with GSL Shell can run to at speed comparable to optimized C code.

Easy to use

Lua is a very interesting and easy to learn scripting language that features advanced functionalities like closures and metamethods. Lua is easy to learn and will give you the power of defining your own complex routines to use the GSL library more easily.

Fast numeric algorithms

GSL Shell has a special implementation of the algorithms for numerical integration, ODE integration and non-linear fit. These algorithms are able to run at the speed of native code even if the functions are defined using a simple dynamic language like Lua.

Plotting functions

You will be able also to create easily beautiful plots or animations using GSL Shell included graphical module.

GSL Shell is hosted at Savannah, here is the project page. GSL Shell comes with a complete user manual.

You can download the latest release of GSL Shell in the download section. You will find the source code and the binary packages for Windows and Linux.

NEW

GSL Shell 2.1.0 released.

This release introduces some new, interesting features.

• Added support to save plot in SVG format.
• Implemented support for plot legends and customized axis labels.
• Implementation of the VEGAS algorithm for Monte Carlo integration.
• Better and more complete implementation of the Special Functions modules using the FFI interface.
• Smart auto-complete for Lua global variables.

A new page to show benchmarks results is now published and three new contributors have also joined the GSL Shell project.

Donate

GSL shell is free software, everyone can freely use it, adapt or study the source code. You can contribute to its development by making a donation:

Why donate

GSL Shell User Manual

GSL Shell comes with a quite complete user manual. If you want to learn more about GSL Shell you can read with the introduction to GSL Shell. You may also give a look to the examples section to get a feeling of GSL Shell.

Note

The manual GSL Shell 1.1 is still available here.

Contents:

• Downloads
  • Debian packages
  • Windows Binaries
  • Source Code
• Benchmarks
  • Results
  • Technical details
  • Benchmark availability
• Why donate
  • What feature you would like to add
• Older News
• Authors
• Acknowledgments