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Multicore chips have more than one CPU core; multiple-processor computers
have more than one CPU chip. Both are being introduced by manufacturers to
speed up tasks by splitting threads or processes among different
processors so that they can be performed in parallel.
Mathematica supports threading of numerical linear
algebra across multiple-CPU or multicore computers.
In addition, Mathematica's notebook front end is a separate process
from its computational kernel, allowing them to run on separate cores or CPUs.
This gives a responsive interface even when the kernel core is under full
load.
gridMathematica, Mathematica Personal Grid
Edition, and the Mathematica application Parallel Computing
Toolkit are options that let users tie together multiple
computers, each containing one or several CPUs and/or cores.
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