Wolfram Research will demonstrate its latest software solutions for the HPC community, showcasing major new advances for Grid computing with Mathematica at the SC06 international supercomputing conference, November 11–17 in Tampa, Florida.

Optimized for virtually all major supercomputers, heterogeneous grids or clusters, and personal workstations, gridMathematica claims to be the gold standard environment for high-performance computing. The software is currently used within the infrastructures of many major corporations, research centers, government institutions, and universities around the world. Mathematica Personal Grid Edition extends this architecture to the desktop, opening the door to barrier-free parallelization on multi-processor machines.

At SC06, experts and representatives from Wolfram Research will be on hand in booth #1946 to preview the new era of Mathematica technology and discuss the impact of recent breakthroughs on the modern computing landscape.

Wolfram Research will also be showcasing these advances inside the booths of several key technology providers, including Mellanox Technologies, ClearSpeed Technology, Tyan Corporation, Microsoft, Apple, Sun, Dell and Intel. Demonstrations in all these venues will introduce Mathematica-based innovations for visualization, interactivity, programming, and Grid deployment.

Dr. Roman Maeder, director of parallel computing technology, will present an overview of these and other gridMathematica developments on Tuesday, November 14 at 11:30 a.m. in the SC06 exhibitor forum. His conference session will focus on extending the Eclipse-based Wolfram Workbench to the development, debugging and profiling of parallel Mathematica applications.

"I'm thrilled to see the parallelism of multi-processor machines harnessed by Mathematica. Wolfram is thereby revealing a prime example of utilizing parallelism, which has become very relevant with the availability of Intel dual core and now the new Clovertown and Kentsfield quad core processors, as well as growth in clusters," said James Reinders, director of marketing for the Intel Software Development Products. "We have been working with Wolfram for a number of years with our compilers and math libraries to help optimize the performance of Mathematica for Intel architectures. We are very pleased to be showing Mathematica in the Intel booth during SC06 this year."