Toolbox 3 Enables Interactive Development

By DE Editors

Distributed Computing Toolbox 3 from The MathWorks (Natick, MA) enables users to prototype and develop parallel algorithms in MATLAB interactively, avoiding the need to program message passing or to use methods that involve languages such as FORTRAN or C.

Distributed Computing Toolbox 3 supports a parallel programming model known as global array semantics, which treats related data distributed across processors as a single distributed array rather than as independent arrays. The toolbox provides more than 150 MATLAB functions for distributed arrays, including linear algebra routines based on ScaLAPACK.

Additionally, the toolbox includes a new interactive parallel mode of execution so that researchers can work interactively with a parallel job running simultaneously on several processors or cores.

Distributed Computing Toolbox 3 supports the full MATLAB language, most MathWorks products, and all supported MATLAB platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Solaris, UNIX, Linux, and Macintosh. MATLAB Distributed Computing Engine 3 is required to run the toolbox. List prices start at $1,000 for the toolbox and $6,000 for the engine.

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