Mathematica [PersonalGrid, CD Windows, Mac, Linux (not Itanium)]

• Parallelisation at the Mathematica language level
• Machine independence--user code is completely portable
• High-performance MathLink communication protocol, optimised 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 parallelisation for nondeterministic problems

Mathematica Features

• Multi-paradigm symbolic programming language with support for procedural, functional, list-based, object-oriented, and symbolic programming constructs
• System-wide dynamic interactivity, allowing the creation of full-function dynamic interfaces for arbitrary objects, including 2D and 3D graphics, math, tables, text, etc.
• Automatic creation of high-fidelity, high-impact 2D, 3D and dynamic visualisations of functions and data with the introduction of 25+ new core visualisation types and 50+ new general visualisation options
• Over two gigabytes of data for math, physics, chemistry, finance, geography, linguistics, and more available to users on demand
• New level of automation for handling external data, including support hundreds of formats and subformats across a full range of areas
• Symbolic interface construction for immediate creation of arbitrary interfaces from simple programs
• Automated computational aesthetics, with algorithmic optimisation for visual presentation
• Unification of active graphics and controls with flowing text and input
• 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
• High-speed numerical linear algebra, with performance equal to specialised numeric libraries
• High-performance optimisation and linear programming functions
• Wide-ranging support for sparse matrices
• Highly optimised 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

Mathematica gives you access to the world's largest collection of algorithms, covering areas such as numerical computation, symbolic computation, graphics, statistics, and data analysis. A high-level, extensible programming language and major functionality for connectivity--including built-in universal database link, web services, and numerous file format converters--help create a robust development environment.

Together, these powerful building blocks make Mathematica ideal for doing exploratory technical computing in a wide range of fields.

Easy Parallelisation On Demand

Now you can simply and elegantly solve parallel-computing problems that used to require thousands of lines of code in C or Fortran. High-level parallel language extensions make it easy--often only involving changing a single command, such as Evaluate to ParallelEvaluate. With Mathematica Personal Grid Edition, using parallel computation is just as easy as using Mathematica, so you can tackle larger problems and investigate parallel approaches at any level of the problem-solving process. And unlike other systems, you can address not just numerics but also symbolics and all areas covered by Mathematica.

Having Mathematica Personal Grid Edition as part of your daily workflow gives you unrestricted access to identify and make use of many more opportunities for parallel solutions. This qualitative change is similar to what Mathematica itself brought when first introduced, making computational problem-solving broadly accessible and leading to significant productivity gains and new advances in many areas.

Zero-Barrier Deployment

Deploying Mathematica Personal Grid Edition on a quad-core computer is just as easy as deploying Mathematica on a laptop. There is no special IT infrastructure to be built and maintained, no shared resources or scheduling administration, and therefore no large budget issues to overcome. This is the ideal personal supercomputing solution.

Same-System Scalability

Mathematica Personal Grid Edition provides a highly accessible entry point to the supercomputing arena, but at some stage you may want to scale your problem beyond your own personal supercomputer. For larger-scale parallel applications, programs can run unchanged on grids or clusters of any size using gridMathematica. This makes Mathematica Personal Grid Edition a perfect prototyping environment for more-intensive applications, and gives you the ability to conveniently handle all of your supercomputing needs within the same, familiar programming framework.