The Wolfram Solution for High-Performance Computing
High-performance computing requires getting correct answers to the most demanding technical and scientific problems. Because of the complexity of such problems, the majority of systems fail to provide either feasible computing times or dependable results.
Wolfram technologies provide the best of both worlds, integrating important HPC technologies in a seamless, optimized environment so you don't have to choose between speed and accuracy. With many of these technologies applied in automated ways, Wolfram offers the high-performance computing environment that lets you deliver quick, correct solutions.
- The Wolfram Edge
- How Wolfram Compares
- Key Capabilities
Wolfram technologies include thousands of built-in functions that let you:
- Build large-scale production systems using the Wolfram Language's unique mix of computational ability, performance and rapid development
- Evaluate and improve your architecture before writing code or test the performance of sections of the code before the application is fully implemented
- Automate the coding process, dramatically reducing time to delivery
- Plot running time to see how it scales with input size
- Enhance financial and linear algebra calculations with CUDA or OpenCL computations
- Use CUDA architecture to calculate game physics of debris or fluids or to speed up applications in other fields that demand high performance
- Use gridMathematica to automatically use extra processing power from local hardware, clusters or ad hoc grids without changing any code
- Simulate complex many-body physical systems with classical and quantum Monte Carlo methods
- Perform powerful image processing with built-in functions for filtering, morphology and binary operations with the GPU
- Run large simulations to test models of complex thermodynamic systems
- Run GPU-optimized BLAST searches on large genomes
- Study protein dynamics on length scales and timescales otherwise not possible
Does your current tool set have these advantages?
- Build on the industry's largest collection of built-in algorithms for a wide range of mathematics, science and engineering applications to write less code and accomplish tasks not possible with other platforms
- Test sections of code as they are written more easily than with compiled languages
- Broad support for HPC standards, including cluster management systems, through gridMathematica
- Built-in multicore, multi-CPU and GPU parallelism with no configuration required in the Wolfram Language.
- Dynamically display parallel processing metrics such as parallel kernel status, load balancing and concurrency monitoring
- Build and load completely scalable CUDA or OpenCL programs with a comprehensive and easy-to-use, high-level interface
- Highly automated machine learning functions provide immediate access to a range of complex computational tasks
- Built-in serialization for Wolfram Language expressions makes it easy to save and restore the state of your system
- Get your work done with a small fraction of the code required in other languages
- Mix code, documentation, test cases, examples and calculations related to your program in a single, highly organized document
High-performance computing specific capabilities:
- High-level, dynamic language with consistent symbolic syntax and semantics across all data, functions and interfaces »
- Develop on any scale, from high-functionality, single-line programs to large projects with millions of lines of code
- Import and consolidate data from devices, sensors, programs, humans and more with the Wolfram Data Drop »
- The world's largest web of algorithms, optimized for speed, memory use and robustness »
- The Wolfram Language's task-oriented superfunctions automatically and dynamically choose the best algorithm for a given application
- Sophisticated machine learning functions provide time-saving tools for predictive analysis, automatic preprocessing and complex data classification »
- Core routines are optimized for specific hardware and use vendor-optimized libraries where beneficial
- High-level support for CUDA and OpenCL computations to fully utilize available hardware »
- Built-in GPU-enhanced functions for areas such as linear algebra, image processing, financial simulation and Fourier transforms
- Automatically use local multicore or multi-CPU hardware, run on multiple CPUs/GPUs locally or remotely or use across grids with gridMathematica »
- Full 64-bit implementation for greater memory access and more efficient hardware usage
- Concurrency primitives for full control of concurrent and delayed computations »
- Just-in-time compilation automatically optimizes code for considerable net performance gains
- Integrate external dynamic libraries directly into the Wolfram Language, enabling high-speed, memory-efficient execution »
- Integrate with C, Python, Java, .NET, databases and other applications »
- Automatically convert Wolfram Language programs into standalone C code with code generation functions »
"I was surprised how easy it was to make the change to parallel computing. The scope and complexity of the problems I can now comfortably explore has greatly increased. The fact that it is a superb all-in-one mathematics, computing, visualizing, documenting and teaching environment is a delight and a great time saver."
Phil GregoryProfessor Emeritus, University of British Columbia
"Wolfram technology provides us with a powerful tool to quickly access the information we need... so we're able to do ad hoc analysis quickly and easily."
Philip ZecherChief Risk Officer, EQA Partners, LP
"gridMathematica will allow me to do things I wouldn't otherwise do. With each additional condition I need to investigate, the variables do not increase linearly—they start to explode. So I am restricted from exploring big spaces and gridMathematica will enable me to do that."
Troy DayAssistant Professor, Queen's University
"The speed at which you can process data in the Wolfram Language is amazing—no other software would do things as fast."
Ariel SepúlvedaFounder, Pronto Analytics
"I derive an immense amount of benefit from the tools the Wolfram Language offers for mounting structures onto data. Visually, it's a big step forward too."
Joel DrouillardResearch Analyst, BondDesk Group LLC
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