Wolfram Research Releases gridMathematica 2 and Parallel,Computing Toolkit 2

From: Wolfram Research (newsdesk_at_wolfram.com)
Date: 03/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:57:04 -0500

Wolfram Research, developer of the renowned Mathematica
technical computing software, 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

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