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The Maple Grid
Computing Toolbox enables you to run Maple computations in
parallel, taking advantage of all your hardware resources,
cutting down on processing time, and enabling applications
that were not possible before.
With the Maple
Grid Computing Toolbox, you can distribute with the Maple Grid
Computing Toolbox, you can distribute computations across the
nodes of a network of workstations, a supercomputer or, the
CPUs of a multiprocessor computer. This allows you to handle
problems that are not tractable on a single machine because of
memory limitations or because it would simply take too long.
The Grid Computing Toolbox is
very easy to set up. It can connect directly into your
existing Windows® HPC Server cluster without the need to set
up services on each node. You can also start a server process
on each computer on a network and the grid will self-assemble
as each node automatically detects the other nodes that are
present.
The Grid Computing Toolbox
also integrates into existing job scheduling systems
such as PBS.
The Grid Computing Toolbox includes a
personal grid server, allowing you to simulate a grid with any
number of nodes on your desktop computer. You can develop and
test your parallel applications before running them on the
real grid.
In order to perform distributed computations, the Grid
Computing Toolbox offers a variety of tools:
- Standard MPI
message passing on Windows HPC Server, for efficient
communication and integration with tools that support this
protocol.
- An MPI-like
message passing API, which is available on all platforms.
This API is part of the Grid Computing Toolbox, so when
using this protocol, no special drivers or other tools need
to be installed on the computers in the grid. In addition to
simplifying the setup of the grid, this protocol is also
ideal for parallel computing on a single computer and
computations across heterogeneous networks.
- A set of
high-level commands in Maple for defining parallel
computations.
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