Mathematica System Setup (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica allows convenient discovery and customization of all aspects of its system setup.

Efficiency (Compiled Function Tools Tutorial)

This section is designed to discuss how to make compiled functions run efficiently. It will cover features that make them run faster, as well as problems that can make them ...

CriticalSection (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

CriticalSection[{var_1, var_2, ...}, expr] locks the variables var_i with respect to parallel computation, evaluates expr, then releases the var_i.

ModulationType (Audio Package Symbol)

ModulationType is an option of FrequencyModulation, specifying the type of modulation.

Benchmarking Package (Benchmarking Package Guide)

GPU Computing (Mathematica Guide)

With Mathematica, the enormous parallel processing power of Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) can be used from an integrated built-in interface. Incorporating GPU technology ...

Introduction (Compiled Function Tools Tutorial)

The Mathematica compiler provides an important way both to speed up and also to work with Mathematica computations. It does this by taking assumptions about the computations ...

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 ...

New in 7.0: Core Language (Mathematica Guide)

Built on powerful and elegant principles, the core Mathematica language has emerged over the past 20 years as perhaps the world's richest and deepest programming language. ...

Control Objects (Mathematica Guide)

Mathematica provides a full range of control objects, all specified in convenient symbolic form. Manipulate uses many of these objects automatically; you can also use them ...