What Is Mathematica Personal Grid Edition?

Mathematica Personal Grid Edition combines the computational capabilities of Mathematica with the high-level parallel language extensions of Parallel Computing Toolkit to make personal supercomputing a reality--right at your own desk, at your own convenience.

Mathematica Personal Grid Edition combines four Mathematica kernels, a Mathematica front end, and Parallel Computing Toolkit. The master kernel handles all input, output, and scheduling, and is controlled from the front end. The computation kernels receive commands from the master kernel.

Mathematica: The World's Largest Algorithm Collection--In One Integrated System Thousands of algorithms for numeric and symbolic computations, discrete mathematics, statistics and data analysis, graphics, visualization, and general programming Automatic algorithm selection and arbitrary precision control Sustained performance equal to specialized numeric libraries Industrial-strength string manipulation, universal database connectivity, web services support, cluster analysis capabilities, and high-speed binary data I/O

Parallel Computing Toolkit: The Complete Symbolic Parallel Language Extension for Mathematica Numerous high-level parallel commands (e.g., ParallelEvaluate, ParallelMap, ParallelTable, ...) Automatic or user-programmable load-balancing scheduling for problem-specific adaptation Error recovery from stranded processes as well as tracing and debugging Speculative parallelization for nondeterministic problems