Advantages of Mathematica Personal Grid Edition

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. Recently, the Mathematica 5 series added all-platform 64-bit support and numerous other feature enhancements to provide unparalleled speed, scope, and scalability.

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

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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.

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.

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.