Introducing the Grid Computing Toolbox from Maplesoft

February 2008: Adept Scientific plc (Letchworth, Herts), announces the addition of Maplesoft’s™ (Waterloo, Canada ) Grid Computing Toolbox to the Maple™ Professional Toolbox Series, enabling distributed computing using Maple, the primary tool for engineers, to solve complex mathematical problems and create rich technical documents.

With the Toolbox users are able to run Maple computations in parallel, taking advantage of all the hardware resources available, cutting down on processing time and enabling applications that were not possible before.

"The Grid Computing Toolbox allows users to distribute computations across the nodes of a network of workstations, a supercomputer, or across the CPUs of a multiprocessor machine,” said Laurent Bernardin, Vice President of Research and Development, Maplesoft. “This allows for the handling of problems that are not tractable on a single machine because of memory limitations or because it would simply take too long."

The simplicity in setting up this toolbox is one of its key features. Users start a server process on each machine on a network and the grid will self-assemble as each node automatically detects the other nodes that are present. It also integrates into existing job scheduling systems.

An earlier version of the Grid Computing Toolbox was available as HPC Grid and was sold as a third party MapleConnect™ product by Maplesoft.

About Maplesoft
Maplesoft is the leading provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science and mathematics. Its product suite reflects the philosophy that given great tools, people can do great things. Maplesoft has transformed the way engineers, scientists and mathematicians use maths enabling them to work better, faster and smarter.

With offices in the UK, USA, Germany and throughout the Nordic region, Adept Scientific is one of the world's leading suppliers of software and hardware products for research, scientific, engineering and technical applications on desktop computers.