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<What Is Mathematica Personal Grid Edition ?
*Key Advantages
* Features
*Q & A
*Specifications

Features

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

Parallel Features

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:

Mathematica Features

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