Visit the M H Media Interactive  web site

Wolfram unveils Gridmathematica 7 technology

A Wolfram Research Europe product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Mar 20, 2009

Wolfram Research has released Gridmathematica 7, extending the built-in parallelisation features of Mathematica.

This follows the company's integration of automatic parallel technology into Mathematica 7 last year.

Gridmathematica adds extra computation kernels and automated network distribution tools, allowing users to run more tasks in parallel, over more central-processing units (CPUs), for faster execution without changing a line of code.

Tom Wickham-Jones, director of kernel technology at Wolfram Research, said: 'Most of our users have access to more than one computer.

'Now, they can apply the power of all of those CPUs to a single task,' he added.

Gridmathematica's extension technology is intended to facilitate parallel tasks, including personal supercomputing.

Whether computations are distributed over local or remote CPUs, process coordination and management is completely automated.

Gridmathematica Local adds four more computation kernels to the four already included in a single-machine Mathematica licence, making it suitable for individual users who need a boost of power on a multi-core machine, according to the company.

Gridmathematica Server provides a network-managed pool of computation kernels that can be shared by a group of Mathematica users locally or run on remote hardware to combine the power of multiple computers.

Wolfram Lightweight Grid Manager helps users to acquire and run Mathematica computation kernels on remote hardware and can be used to control high-performance clusters or create ad-hoc grids from idle computers.

Users of Gridmathematica 7 can automatically scale up their tasks to grids of any size, allowing them to deliver accurate solutions even faster.

Gridmathematica requires Mathematica and is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Not what you're looking for? Search the site.

Back to top Back to top

Google Ads

 

Contact Wolfram Research Europe

Related Stories

Contact Wolfram Research Europe

 

Newsletter sign up

Request your free weekly copy of the Engineeringtalk email newsletter ...

Visit the M H Media Interactive  web site

Articles by product category

All suppliers A - Z

A Pro-talk Publication

A Pro-talk publication