Scyld Computing Corporation and Wolfram Research explore bringing Wolfram's widely used Mathematica and the Mathematica Parallel Computing Toolkit to the Scyld Beowulf high performance computing clus

Annapolis, MD (PRWEB) February 2, 2001 -Scyld Computing Corporation and Wolfram Research are looking at working together to ensure Wolfram's widely used Mathematica and the Mathematica Parallel Computing Toolkit will work seamlessly on the Scyld Beowulf high performance computing cluster operating system.

Scyld is filling the need for a standard, supported, high performance cluster operating system. It has recently released its Scyld Beowulf Next Generation clustering operating system which provides simplified cluster integration and setup, minimal administration, and seamless scalability.

Wolfram's Mathematica and the Mathematica Parallel Computing Toolkit provides Engineers, scientists, and analysts an ideal tool for performing the large-scale computations often involved in the product-design and problem-solving process. It features include parallel functional programming, and failure recovery and automatic reassignment of stranded processes in the event of a system failure. Parallel Computing Toolkit implements many parallel programming primitives and includes high-level commands for parallel execution of operations such as animation, plotting, and matrix manipulation. It comes with numerous examples demonstrating many popular new programming approaches such as parallel Monte Carlo simulation, visualization, searching, and optimization. Because Parallel Computing Toolkit also provides the Mathematica source code for all high-level commands, these operations and examples can serve as templates for building additional parallel programs.

Scyld Beowulf operating system's ease of installation, simple administration, increased processing capabilities, MPI implementation, and seamless scalability combined with Wolfram's Mathematica tools will provide users an extremely powerful resource for advanced mathematical analysis and high performance computing.

About Scyld Computing Corporation

Scyld Computing Corporation is the leading developer of second generation Beowulf cluster operating systems. Donald Becker, CTO, and Scyld developers are known in the Linux community for their extensive contributions to the Linux kernel. Based in Annapolis, Maryland, Scyld is a privately held company. Further information may be obtained at www.scyld.com. Scyld Beowulf and Scyld Computing are registered trademarks of Scyld Computing Corporation.

About Wolfram Research

Through innovation and progressive growth, Wolfram Research, Inc. continues to thrive as the world's leading technical software company. Wolfram Research products maintain a reputation for innovation, power, quality, and elegance. The company's aim can be summarized: "Pushing the Envelope of Technical Computing." Mathematica is a registered trademark of Wolfram Research, Inc.

About Beowulf

Beowulf, and Beowulf clustering are terms that describe a technique of connecting commodity computers together , using a modified version of Linux, to create a High Performance Computer. Started in 1993, by Donald Becker and Thomas Sterling, early development was sponsored by NASA. In 1997, Beowulf clusters broke the ten billion operations per second mark, and today can perform over 200 billion operations per second. Today, there are tens of thousands of Beowulf clusters installed in government, educational, and commercial facilities. Beowulf is a descriptive service mark held by Linux International.

# # #

CONTACT:
Tom Quinn
Scyld Computing Corporation
(410) 990-9993
quinn@scyld.com
http://www.scyld.com