Researchers can access MATLAB on TeraGrid

Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) in partnership with Purdue University has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) award to deploy MathWorks MATLAB on the TeraGrid to provide parallel MATLAB computational services running on Windows HPC Server 2008 to remote desktop and Science Gateway users with complex analytic and fast simulation requirements.

"MATLAB on the TeraGrid will help enable a broader class of researchers who are well-versed in MATLAB to reduce the time to solution in a scalable manner without having to become parallel programming experts," said Cornell University's senior vice provost for research Robert Buhrman. "It will serve as a complementary experimental component to NSF's large-scale eXtreme Digital vision and TeraGrid Science Gateways, and be a valuable tool to researchers focused on solving complex problems in the environment, health care, and many other science and engineering disciplines," he added.

"This project is designed to advance the understanding of how to best deploy a software utility as a transparent and responsive user service," said CAC director and principal investigator David Lifka. "It will demonstrate an important working model for high-performance utility computing, which may encourage other software vendors to explore and develop similar research capabilities."

MATLAB on the TeraGrid is funded through the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) and grants from Dell, Microsoft, and The MathWorks.

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