Wolfram Mathematica Licenses
Mathematica Licenses
- Who Qualifies for UCB Site License
- What benefits are included with our site license?
- UCB License Types
- Subscription Information
- Updates
- Application Download Information
- Purchase or Renew a License
- Convert your License
- Support
- Contacts
Who Qualifies:
UCB Department Computers
Licenses can be purchased only by UC Berkeley departments. The software can only be used by UCB students, faculty and staff on University owned computers for teaching or academic research projects. Any other use is expressly prohibited.
Employee-Owned Computers
UC Berkeley faculty and staff can request a free home-use license for a personally owned machine from IST Technology Acquisition and Sales Software Programs at products@berkeley.edu. Your home department must participate in the UCB site license.
Student-Owned Computers
Students can purchase discounted licenses for personally owned machines through Wolfram Research for $44.95 (Semester Edition) or $69.95 (Annual Edition) at http://www.wolfram.com/students. Faculty are encouraged to let Technology Acquisition and Sales' Software Program office know if a significant number of students will use Mathematica for a course, as additional discounts may be available.
What other benefits are included with our site license?
Wolfram Lightweight Grid Manager
Mathematica Lightweight Grid Manager makes it easy for users to find and run Mathematica computation kernels on remote hardware, lending more CPU power to parallel Mathematica tasks and allowing ad hoc grids from idle machines to power Mathematica calculations. Employees may obtain Player Pro online using our site license number).
Mathematica Player Pro
Mathematica Player Pro allows non-Mathematica-users to run any program or application created in Mathematica. Complimentary copies of Mathematica Player Pro are available for use on computers that are owned by and located at UC Berkeley, or employee-owned computers. Employees may obtain Player Pro online using our site license number).
Wolfram Workbench
Wolfram Workbench is an integrated development environment (IDE) for building large-scale technical solutions with Mathematica. If you want to develop code written in the Mathematica language, you can request a free copy of Wolfram Workbench using our site license number).
web Mathematica Amateur
webMathematica Amateur allows you to create websites where users can compute and visualize results directly from a web browser. A limited number of webMathematica Amateur licenses are available for those who wish to showcase their work over the web..
The Mathematica Journal
Free online access to The Mathematica Journal is available through http://www.wolfram.com/premiersupport. Enter our site license number and click on the link to The Mathematica Journal on this page to read current and past issues posted online.
Discounts on Wolfram Education Group classes and Mathematica conferences
Users covered by the site license are eligible for a 15% discount off the standard price of all Wolfram Education Group classroom-based and online courses. Click here for a complete list of classes and to register. Discounts ranging from 10 to 50% off are also available for select Wolfram Research conferences, presentations, seminars, and other events.
Discounts on Mathematica application packages
Users covered by the site license are eligible for a 15% discount off the standard price of Mathematica application packages. Click here for a complete list of Mathematica Applications.
The UCB Site License number is required for these services. This will be provided when you purchase your license(s).
UCB License Types:
UCB has two types of Mathematica licenses available:
- Departmental UC Berkeley Site License Agreement Single Machine/User license. These are full packages that include
- The latest version of Mathematica downloadable directly from Wolfram
- Upgrades to the latest version
- Free Home Use license for each license
- Getting Started Guide for the specific platform*
- Guide to Standard Add-Ons*
- The Mathematica Book* (1500 page electronic 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 as Online Mathematica training: http://www.wolfram.com/services/education
- An Unlimited UCB Departmental Site License
- This program requires a network license server provided as part of the license package.
- Computers must be on the UCB network, physically at a UCB location, and must be registered in the campus berkeley.edu domain to participate.
- We cannot extend this software agreement to grant individually owned computers access to the network license at this time. FACULTY home use licenses can be obtained under the UC Berkeley site agreement.
- This license agreement is composed of:
- Unlimited concurrent user UCB network licenses for class A/B platforms. A department may participate for a single annual fee (includes MathLM).
- 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.
- Home Use License
Home use licenses are available to faculty and staff whose department department has purchased into the UCB site license, not have it's own license(s) from Mathematica. Your "home use" computer must be used primarily for the use or support of instruction and academic research. Home use licenses are limited to the number of licenses in use by the department.
If you are eligible, go to http://www.wolfram.com/siteinfo/homeuse. You must provide the UC Berkeley site license number L3260-9878 during the request procedure. Also, provide your department name. Choose to download or receive install CD, choose your platform and complete the request form. A password will be sent to the email listed on the request form after verification on eligibility.
Subscription Information
Our UCB Mathematica Site License annual term starts each November 1 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. Please note that we are working with Mathematica to sync our license with the University's fiscal year- July 1 - June 30; however, at this time the license is valid from Nov. 1, 2008 through October 31, 2009. Notice(s) of any license term changes will be sent to the Primary Contact for the license via email.
Updates
Software updates can be obtained from Software Distribution as long as the license fee is paid for the current year.
Application Download and Installation.
- Disk images are available for download from Software Central - Mathematica.
- Choose your operating system
- Click the download image. You will need to CalNet authenticate.
- Open the install file and follow the installation directions
- When prompted enter a Name and Organization (UC Berkeley is preferred for the site license)
- Enter the UCB site license number - L3260-9878
- Click OK
- You will see a MathID and a blank Password
- To obtain a password click Web. This will take you to Wolfram's site
- Select your action - "I want to register a product and generate a password"
- Complete the subsequent forms
- Please indicate on the Wolfram registration form the name of the contact person listed on the purchase order. This will help match up passwords to orders received.
- A password will be emailed to you from the Software Programs Office
- Note: You must complete the steps below to purchase a license in order to receive your password(s)
Purchase New or Renew Licenses
Department Order Instructions:
- Decide who will be the Primary Contact for the license. This person is responsible for the license. Please put this person’s name and contact information in the “Requester” field on the order form. Also, use this name during the software registration and password request process.
- Add license(s) to TSW Shopping cart
- Complete the order, print and obtain the signature of the Purchase Approver.
- Fax, mail, or deliver the signed order to Software Programs Office:
- Fax: (510) 643-6201
- Campus mail code: 4860
- Mailing address: Software Programs Office, 2484 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley CA 94720-4860
- Complete Application Download per instructions above.
Renewal of licenses requires payment and you must request a new password for the 11/1/09-10/31/10 license period.
Your order will be processed after we receive the order form with a valid BFS Chartstring and signature. Once the order has been processed your Primary Contact will receive a confirmation email with the license password(s) and instructions.
Convert Your Licenses to UCB Site License
When it comes time to renew your license it will save you money and add important license features if you convert you license to the UC Berkeley site license.
Note: this is for current, up to date license holders. If you have a license for an older version or have not been purchasing Premiere Service, you must purchase a new license (see instructions above).
Department Order Instructions:
- The Primary Contact for the license should contact the Technology Acquisition and Sales Software group. Provide the current license number(s) of your mathematica products. This person is responsible for the license. Please put this person’s name and contact information in the “Requester” field on the order form.
- Add license(s) to TSW Shopping cart
- Complete the order, print and obtain the signature of the Purchase Approver.
- Provide your old license number(s). We will work with Wolfram to discontinue and switch them to the UCB site license.
- Fax, mail, or deliver the signed order to Software Programs Office:
- Fax: (510) 643-6201
- Campus mail code: 4860
- Campus address: Software Programs Office, 2484 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley CA 94720-4860
Your order will be processed after we receive the order form with a valid chartstring and signature. Once the order has been processed the Primary Contact will receive a confirmation email with instructions for requesting a password to activate the license.
Support
Software Distribution cannot provide technical support for these products. Participants can contact Wolfram's web site for technical support information.
Contacts
Technology Acquisition and Sales Software Distribution
Email: products@berkeley.edu
Phone: (510) 642-8424