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gridMathematica Announced

Posted by chrisd on from the comdex-paradox dept.

simpl3x writes "Mathematica for grids was announced at Comdex. It offers support for the usual platforms--Windows, OS X, Linux, and Unix--and offers the ability to use heterogeneous OSes. I haven't used the product in years, but cool nonetheless. Does an off-the-shelf software package, which is scalable as this is provide competition to custom packages--is it easier to add machines than develop custom programs?" And just when you thought Comdex was good and dead.

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  1. Yes, but... by ComaVN · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can it be used to emulate the universe using a cellular automaton?

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    1. Re:Yes, but... by BabyDave · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, but if you scale up enough, it can emulate a cellular automaton using the Universe ...

  2. bah by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    No matter how much horsepower I put behind Mathematica, it still gives me errors when I divide by zero. My employer didn't spend zillions of dollars on SGI Origins just to get errors. Can't Wolfram include some sort of Clippy helper? /sarcasm

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  3. discount by sstory · · Score: 5, Funny

    wonder if i'll be able to get a $130 gridMathematica for Students version. :-)

  4. Quick Poll by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Funny
    For mathematical modeling I use:

    Mathematica

    LPL

    AMPL

    I code it all myself in assembler, thank you very much!

    Fingers and toes

    Another method

    CowboyNeal works it out for me on his abacus

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  5. Re:Students by AnoniemeLafaard · · Score: 2, Funny

    See, that's why you need Mathematica. It gives the really useful answer

    In[2]:= Integrate[ Sqrt[1 + x^(-4)], x]

    -4 3/4 -4 2 2
    Out[2]= -(Sqrt[1 + x ] x) - (2 (-1) Sqrt[1 + x ] x Sqrt[1 - I x ]

    2 1/4
    > Sqrt[1 + I x ] (EllipticE[I ArcSinh[(-1) x], -1] -

    1/4 4
    > EllipticF[I ArcSinh[(-1) x], -1])) / (1 + x )