Mathematica Embraces Personal Supercomputing

By DE Editors

Wolfram Research, Inc. (Champaign, IL) says that personal supercomputing isnow a reality when you couple the company’s Mathematica Personal GridEdition and new cost-effective quad-core computers. MathematicaPersonal Grid Edition eliminates the barriers to using parallelism aspart of your daily workflow:  no administrative overhead and nocontending for shared resources. With Mathematica Personal Grid Editionyou can take on larger problems and investigate parallel approaches atany stage of the problem-solving process from your desktop.

The Mathematica 5 series (5.0, 5.1, 5.2) provided numerous performanceand scalability enhancements for demanding technical computingapplications. These versions also incorporate new functionality forconnectivity—including built-in universal database link, web services,and numerous file format converters—as well as newnumerical and symbolic algorithms. gridMathematica extends this high-level framework to enterprise parallel computing.

Mathematica Personal Grid Edition combines the computationalcapabilities of Mathematica with high-level parallel languageextensions to create an computing framework for quad-core machines.Mathematica’s high-level language and state-of-the-art numeric andsymbolic solvers, says Wolfram, make it ideal for doing exploratorytechnical computing in a wide range of fields, resulting in increasedproductivity and letting you push the limits further than ever before.

Mathematica Personal Grid Edition is the only solution to bringhigh-performance supercomputing to the individual desk, according toWolfram Research. It offers performance improvements of up to 300% overstandard Mathematica with only minimal code modifications. Formore-intensive parallel applications, programs can run unchanged ongrids or clusters of any size using gridMathematica. This also makesMathematica Personal Grid Edition a prototyping environment forlarge-scale parallelism.

Mathematica Personal Grid Edition is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Unix, for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

More details are available on the Mathematica Personal Grid Edition web page, available by clicking here.