Mathematica Personal Grid Edition

Leveraging technology originally developed for gridMathematica--Wolfram Research's industry-leading environment for modern multiprocessor machines, clusters, grids, and supercomputers--Mathematica Personal Grid Edition is the ideal environment for small multiprocessor or multicore computers.

Mathematica Personal Grid Edition implements many parallel programming primitives and includes high-level commands for parallel execution of matrix operations, plotting, and other functions. It comes with example applications of many popular new programming approaches. The implementations for all high-level parallel processing commands are provided in Mathematica source form so they can also serve as templates for users to build their own parallel programs.

Mathematica Personal Grid Edition provides innovative parallel computing functionality, with features such as the following:

Parallelization at the Mathematica language level

Machine independence--user code is completely portable

High-performance MathLink communication protocol, optimized for all common configurations

Efficient, adaptive load balancing

Automatic or user-programmable scheduling for problem-specific adaptation

Automatic failure-recovery and reassignment of stranded processes

Support for tracing and debugging

Speculative parallelization for nondeterministic problems

Mathematica Personal Grid Edition supports all Mathematica functionality--including the world's largest collection of advanced algorithms for numeric and symbolic computation, discrete mathematics, statistics, data analysis, graphics, visualization, and general programming--as well as all Mathematica application packages. Some specific features of interest include:

Multi-paradigm symbolic programming language with support for procedural, functional, list-based, object-oriented, and symbolic programming constructs

Automatic precision control and support for exact integers of arbitrary length, rationals, floating-point real and complex numbers, and arbitrary-precision real and complex numbers

Automatic algorithm selection for optimal performance

Fully programmable 2D and 3D visualization with over 50 built-in plot types to process data and visualize results in one environment

High-speed numerical linear algebra, with performance equal to specialized numeric libraries

High-performance optimization and linear programming functions

Wide-ranging support for sparse matrices

Flexible import and export of over 70 data, image, and sparse-matrix formats

Highly optimized binary data I/O allowing fast import of any binary data

Industrial-strength string manipulation

Built-in universal database connectivity for additional data import capabilities

Language bindings to C, Java, .NET, Python, and scripting languages

All-platform support for 64-bit addressing

Support for multiprocessor and multicore machines on all platforms

Multithreaded numerical linear algebra

Vector-based performance enhancements

MathematicaMark 5.2 benchmarking tool to measure the performance of your system

System Requirements:

Please Visit the Mathematica Web Site for detailed information regarding platform(s) support.