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64-bit Linux-based, supercomputing-style parallelization of Wolfram Research's Mathematica will make its debut at Supercomputing 2009
Aliso Viejo, CA - October 16, 2009 - Dauger Research, Inc., and
Advanced
Cluster Systems, LLC, announce today that the
Supercomputing Engine for
Mathematica (SEM), which combines
Wolfram Research's Mathematica with
the easy-to-use, supercomputer-compatible
Pooch clustering technology of
Dauger Research, will extend support to 64-bit Linux. Not only will the
patent-pending SEM run on Linux and Macintosh separately, but SEM will
also utilize mixed clusters of Macintosh and 64-bit Linux. Like Pooch,
SEM will further enhance the power of clusters for its users.
Inspired by the industry-standard Message-Passing Interface (MPI), SEM
creates a standardized way for Mathematica kernels to communicate with
each other directly. This solution stands in contrast to typical grid
implementations that are master-slave or server-client in that all the
kernels can communicate with each other directly and collectively as
with modern supercomputers. Within the Mathematica environment, SEM
creates an "all-to-all" communication topology, which practitioners have
found necessary to address the largest problems in scientific computing
since early large supercomputers. Like a supercomputer, SEM harnesses
many Mathematica kernels to provide solutions that once never seemed
possible.
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