SCHEDULE: NOV 10-16, 2007

Supercomputing Engine for Mathematica

Session: Programming Tools

Event Type: Exhibitor Forum

Time:

Session Chair: Pavan Balaji

Speaker(s): Dean E. Dauger

Location: A7

Abstract:
The new Supercomputing Engine for Mathematica enables Wolfram Research's Mathematica to be combined with the programming paradigm of today's supercomputers. Closely following the industry-standard Message-Passing Interface (MPI), this new toolkit creates a standard way for every Mathematica kernel in the cluster to communicate with each other directly while performing computations. In contrast to typical grid implementations of Mathematica that are solely master-slave, this solution instead has all kernels communicate with each other directly and collectively the way modern supercomputers do. Besides creating an "all-to-all" communication topology using Mathematica kernels on a cluster, the new technology supports low-level and collective MPI calls and a suite of high-level calls, all within the Mathematica computing environment. We present the technology's API, structure, and supporting technologies with examples of its potential application. http://daugerresearch.com/pooch/mathematica/

Chair/Speaker Details:

Pavan Balaji (Chair)
Argonne National Laboratory

Dean E. Dauger
Dauger Research, Inc.

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