Wolfram Research Inc. Mathematica

UCSD has three types of Mathematica licenses available. These are presented in the order of decreasing price, and ease of use/acquisition

  1. Educational fully packaged product available from the UCSD bookstore
  2. An unlimited departmental 70% discount purchase of perpetual licenses
  3. An unlimited UCSD network site license.
  1. The easiest route to get Mathematica is as a "fully packaged product" (box, license, CD, manual). You can order this from: http://bookstore.ucsd.edu/computers/software/wolfram.htm

    2. As of 11/19/2007, students, faculty & staff can get via the UCSD bookstore, usually on an immediate basis:

    For faculty & staff:

    • Mathematica 6.0 Professional
    • List Price: $2,495.00 - Our Price: $1,095.00
    • Windows, Macintosh, or Linux. (not multi-platform)

    For students:

    • Mathematica 6.0 Student
    • List Price: $699.99
    • Our Price: $139.99
    • Students Only
    • Multi-Platform: works with Windows, Linux and Macintosh.

    All academically priced products are for sale to current students, staff and faculty of UCSD only. Pricing and availability subject to change without notice.

    Bookstore Computer Center: 858.534.4291

    Contact the bookstore directly to purchase these fully packaged products.

  2. UC-wide we have an extension on the previous Wolfram Mathematica agreement that carries the existing 70% discount on per-license pricing through 6/30/06. This is an effective way to get departmental licenses at a good price.

    3. Wolfram Research Inc. Mathematica
    Permanent licenses for the UC agreement L2953-8559

    • Win/Mac/Linux single-machine $349.05
    • UNIX single-machine license $778.05
    • Network License Manager (MathLM) $195.00
    • Windows/Mac/Linux Network process $454.35
    • All-platform Network process $590.85

    This is a full package which includes:

    • CD for installation
    • Getting Started Guide for the specific platform*
    • Guide to Standard Add-Ons*
    • The Mathematica Book* (1500 page manual)
    • For Windows and Mac, License Certificate with Password
    • For Unix, Linux and Networks, users will need to contact Mathematica for a password via the web, Email or phone

    *all manuals are included in the Mathematica Help Browser as well On-site Mathematica training: http://www.wolfram.com/services/education

    Contact Wolfram directly to participate:
    Bob Peterson
    Wolfram Research, Inc.
    100 Trade Center Drive
    Champaign, IL 61820-7237
    Phone: 1-800-965-3726 ext. 3496
    Fax: 1-217-398-1108
    robertp@wolfram.com

  3. An unlimited UCSD network site license involving annual subscriptions and renewals that gives UCSD access on a per seat basis to all eligible products offered by Wolfram Research. We are allowing participation outside of the of ACS instructional labs. This is especially notable for FACULTY, as we have home use licenses available for use with your courses.

Who qualifies

This software can only be used by UCSD students, faculty and staff under the conditions stated in the Licensee. Any other use is expressly prohibited. In addition, this program uses a network license server. Computers must be on the UCSD network, physically at a UCSD location, and must be registered in the campus UCSD.EDU domain to participate.

Note that this is a concurrent shared use pool of licenses, so usage will need to be monitored, and there is a possibility of all licenses being in use. Hence we need to limit use to those actually participating.

We cannot extend this software agreement to grant individually owned computers access to the network license at this time. We do have a number of FACULTY home use licenses we can arrange for.

This license agreement is composed of:

Unlimited concurrent user UCSD network licenses for class A/B platforms. $150 per concurrent user per year annual fee. A department may participate for a single $3000 annual fee.
Limited number of annual copies for FACULTY home use when using the license.
Limited number of copies for webMathematica Amateur to use with above concurrent licenses.

Our UCSD Mathematica Site License annual term starts each 15-September for one year, with the expectation that renewals will likely happen for future years. Each department machine running the software must obtain a license for the number of users/uses desired.

Updates

Software updates can be obtained from ACS as long as the license fee is paid for the current year.

Media

Disk images are available for download.

Support

ACS can only provide very limited technical support on these products. Participants can also contact Wolfram's web site for technical support.

Contacts

Software Distribution:
ACS Software Distribution
software@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-9676

Technical Support:

Jim Rapp
jrapp@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-4060

Terry Bobryk-Ozaki
tozaki@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-4060

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