Virtual Shared Memory (Parallel Package Tutorial)

Special-purpose multiprocessing hardware comes in two types, shared memory and distributed memory. In a shared-memory machine, all processors have access to a common main ...

AbsoluteTime (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

AbsoluteTime[] gives the total number of seconds since the beginning of January 1, 1900, in your time zone.AbsoluteTime[{y, m, d, h, m, s}] gives the absolute time ...

Running Mathematica from Within an ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

To run Mathematica from within an external program requires making use of many general features of MathLink. The first issue is how to establish a MathLink connection to ...

Method (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Method is an option for various algorithm-intensive functions that specifies what internal methods they should use.

Summary of New Features in Mathematica 8 (Mathematica Guide)

$GeoLocation (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$GeoLocation is a settable global variable that specifies the default geodetic location to use.

RemoteKernelOpen (Lightweight Grid Client Symbol)

RemoteKernelOpen[spec] launches a kernel with the given specification.RemoteKernelOpen[{spec_1, spec_2, ...}] launches kernels in parallel.

Registration and Passwords (Mathematica Tutorial)

To install and use Mathematica and MathLM, you must activate your product and receive a password. Before registering, you must first begin the installation process according ...

FrequencyModulation (Audio Package Symbol)

FrequencyModulation[f_c, {f_m, pd}, dur] creates a Sound object that is a frequency-modulated sinusoid, having carrier and modulating frequencies f_c and f_m, measured in ...

OpenCLLink Overview (OpenCLLink Package Overview)

OpenCLLink allows Mathematica to use the OpenCL parallel computing language. It contains functions that facilitate loading user-defined OpenCL functions into Mathematica. ...