Wolfram Research Releases gridMathematica 2 and Parallel Computing Toolkit 2
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- Subject: [mg55100] Wolfram Research Releases gridMathematica 2 and Parallel Computing Toolkit 2
- From: Wolfram Research <newsdesk at wolfram.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:36:48 -0500 (EST)
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Wolfram Research Releases gridMathematica 2 and Parallel Computing Toolkit 2 Wolfram Research announces the release of both Parallel Computing Toolkit 2 and gridMathematica 2, an optimized parallel Mathematica environment for multiprocessor machines, clusters, grids, and supercomputers. Parallel Computing Toolkit 2 is a versatile parallel computing solution for anyone with access to more than one processor. Compatible with Mathematica 5.1 and also a major component of gridMathematica 2, this Mathematica application package enables you to tackle large-scale problems and build platform- independent parallel programs with your existing Mathematica installation. Major new features and enhancements in Parallel Computing Toolkit 2 include: * Improved configuration of remote Mathematica kernels * Additional automatic parallelization * Better load balancing based on relative processor speeds and communication latencies * Programmable scheduling for easy problem-specific optimization * Enhanced support for tracing and debugging * Support for speculative parallelization * Seamless execution on scalar and parallel setup gridMathematica 2 provides all of these enhancements as well as universal database connectivity, web services support, high-speed binary I/O, industrial-strength string manipulation, and full optimization for all 64-bit architectures. gridMathematica lets you easily develop powerful parallel applications on a PC and deploy them seamlessly on any grid or supercomputer. It is perfectly suited for numerical supercomputing applications as well as parallel processing of complex non-numeric data such as images, 2D and 3D vector graphics, geospatial information, genomic sequences, algebraic formulas, logical and program constructs, and general symbolic data. Both Parallel Computing Toolkit 2 and gridMathematica 2 are available for all common Linux and Unix systems, Windows, and Mac OS X. More product details can be found at http://www.wolfram.com/products