Wolfram Research to Collaborate with Colfax International

By DE Editors

Through its partnership with Colfax International (Sunnyvale, CA), a producer of server systems, Wolfram Research (Champaign, IL) is making gridMathematica 2.2 available preinstalled on the Colfax CX6000 Workgroup Cluster. The arrangement is also in collaboration with Microsoft and Intel.

This integrated hardware and software solution provides an expedient, straightforward path for migrating from a single-core desktop to a multi-core cluster, states the release. The preconfigured system removes the work required to set up and maintain the system, allowing you to “get to work” with a minimal amount of setup. (The systems are available from Colfax International.)

gridMathematica 2.2 couples the new functionality of Mathematica 6 — such as dynamic interactivity, 2D and 3D visualization, and integrated load-on-demand data services — to the efficiency of Colfax’s cluster technology. Dynamic visualization brings a new way to look at data, while the on-demand data services allow access to and use of curated data in numerous fields involved in parallel and multi-core computing environments.

This latest gridMathematica version combines Mathematica’s control of parallel operations with broad platform support, 64-bit optimization, and seamless integration with Microsoft’s Compute Cluster Server.

In addition to more than 1000 new computational functions and interface enhancements, gridMathematica features easy development and deployment of parallel applications; machine-independent portable code; support for multiprocessor machines, clusters, and grids; effective utilization of high-performance networking; efficient, adaptive load balancing; and speculative parallelization for nondeterministic problems.

For further details, go to Wolfram Research, Inc.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.