Sceding Beyond the Desktop with MATLAB

摘要

Parallel computing technologies offer engineers the means to accelerate solutions of their computational problems by using multiple hardware resources. The ability to solve very large problems by scaling computer programs to run on multicore workstations, clusters, grids, and clouds can help engineers gain significant research and competitive advantages.rnEngineers who need their computer programs to run faster or process larger data sets would prefer that every program automatically use parallelism. However, automatic parallelism is still a subject of basic computer science research. Thus, the re-sponsibEity of using parallelism to run programs across multiple cores or computers is shared by the designers of programming languages/environments and their users.rnThis article explores the expectations that engineers have when using scalable parallel computing technologies as well as how the designers of MATLAB have attempted to meet those expectations.