# octave

## Summary

+ **Module Name:** octave
+ **Support Level:** Secondary Support
+ **Software Access Level:** Open Access
+ **Home Page:** [https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/](https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/)

## Software Description

Octave (a.k.a GNU Octave) is a open source computational software built
to be compatible with Matlab. It is a interpreted language which
provides commands that can be used to perform matrix manipulation,
linear algebra, plotting, performing differentiation and integration,
optimization, statistics and many more.
## General Linux

To load this module for use in a Linux environment, you can run the command:

	module load octave

Depending on where you are working, there may be more than one version of octave available.
To see which modules are available for loading you can run:

	module avail octave