Adept offers latest Maple Grid Computing Toolbox

The Maple 14 Grid Computing Toolbox enables distributed computing using the Maple tool, which helps engineers to solve complex mathematical problems and to create rich technical documents.

Using the toolbox, users can run Maple computations in parallel, taking advantage of all the hardware resources available, cutting down on processing time and enabling applications that were not previously possible.

The Maple 14 release of the Maple Grid Computing Toolbox provides built-in integration with Windows HPC Server, including the recently released Windows HPC Server 2008 R2.

It connects directly to a user's Windows HPC Server cluster, simplifying the installation, configuration and operation of the grid, and integrates with the Windows HPC Server tool chain for administrative tasks such as job scheduling, load balancing and usage monitoring.

The Maple 14 Grid Computing Toolbox also uses the standard message passing interface (MPI) protocol for efficient communication between nodes in the grid and easy integration with tools that support this protocol.

'The Grid Computing Toolbox allows users to distribute computations across the nodes of a network of workstations, a supercomputer or across the CPUs [central processing units] of a multiprocessor machine, handling problems that are not tractable on a single machine,' said Paul DeMarco, director of development for the Maple Grid Computing Toolbox at Maplesoft.

'With the Maple 14 Grid Computing Toolbox's built-in integration with Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, it is now easier for our joint customers to set up grid computations on a Windows HPC cluster,' added Bill Hamilton, director of technical computing at Microsoft Corporation.