In keeping with its six-month release cycle, The MathWorks has announced Release 2009a of its MATLAB parallel computing products.
The company said Parallel Computing Toolbox and Distributed Computing Server allow users to perform complex operations with MATLAB Simulink using multi-core computers and computer clusters.
Available for Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Linux, and Macintosh platforms, Parallel Computing Toolbox allows engineers and scientists to program the parallel MATLAB applications or convert existing serial ones with few code changes using parallel processing features in the toolbox: parallel for-loops; distributed arrays; parallel numerical algorithms; and message-passing functions.
The toolbox then lets users run their applications on multi-core or multiprocessor desktops.
Beyond the desktop, Distributed Computing Server supports third-party schedulers, including Microsoft HPC Server 2008, and allows cluster administrators to integrate MathWorks parallel computing tools into existing distributed computing environments.
Once the application is programmed, users can scale to larger resources, such as clusters and grids, without having to modify the code by relying on MATLAB
The MathWorks also introduced new features that take advantage of multi-core desktops in other products, including MATLAB, Simulink Design Optimisation, and Real-Time Workshop Embedded Coder.