Some of the main strengths of Mathematica are its symbolic algebra and pattern matching capabilities. These unfortunately also work rather slow.
Here is where gridMathematica could come as a real boon. At least the kind of problems I have worked on (Feynman diagram calculations), and I suspect many others, are trivially parallelizable; what previously took days to complete might now be done in hours, depending on the number of machines at your disposal.
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Some of the main strengths of Mathematica are its symbolic algebra and pattern matching capabilities. These unfortunately also work rather slow.
Here is where gridMathematica could come as a real boon. At least the kind of problems I have worked on (Feynman diagram calculations), and I suspect many others, are trivially parallelizable; what previously took days to complete might now be done in hours, depending on the number of machines at your disposal.