The MathWorks today announced it demonstrated a strong leadership position at this year's premier conference on high-performance computing, networking, and storage, Supercomputing 2005 (SC|05). The event, which concludes this week in Seattle, Washington, served as the stage for The MathWorks to introduce the latest version of its high-productivity development tool, the Distributed Computing Toolbox 2. This latest version of the software enables engineers and scientists to dramatically simplify the task of developing distributed computing applications. Additionally, the Distributed Computing Toolbox 2 was featured by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in his keynote address on November 15. "Advancements in high-performance technical computing tools are crucial to engineers and scientists tasked with solving today's toughest computing challenges," said Kyril Faenov, director of high performance computing at Microsoft Corp. "The Distributed Computing Toolbox 2 from The MathWorks, coupled with Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, brings the power of high-performance computing to the departmental and workgroup levels. As a result, the administration and management of clusters can be simplified for those groups who typically had to rely on dedicated IT groups in the past." The strong presence of The MathWorks at SC|05 demonstrates the Company's commitment to providing engineers and scientists with distributed computing tools for technical computing. In addition to announcing the release of the Distributed Computing Toolbox 2, Company representatives, including MathWorks cofounder and creator of MATLAB(R), Cleve Moler, shared their expertise throughout the event's extensive technical program by participating in tutorials, panels, and presentations at partner booths. The MathWorks participated in the following SC|05 technical programs and demonstrations: -- Loren Dean and Silvina Grad-Freilich of The MathWorks co-presented the tutorial, "Parallel and Distributed Computing with MATLAB," with Jeremy Kepner and Albert Reuther of MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The tutorial used customer stories to illustrate some of the most popular technologies for writing parallel and distributed MATLAB programs. -- Ohio Supercomputing Center's booth featured a Parallel MATLAB mini-symposium. -- Microsoft and Platform Computing featured demonstrations of the Distributed Computing Toolbox 2 in their booths. -- Orion and ClearSpeed partner booths both featured MathWorks tools, while partner Hewlett Packard demonstrated how MathWorks tools are integrated with the Enfuzion(R) scheduler from Axceleon. -- The Birds-of-a-Feather session, "2005 HP Challenge Award," included a presentation by Cleve Moler. -- Cleve Moler was also a member of the panel "Return of HPC Survivor--Outwit, Outlast, Outcompute." The panel was structured as a series of "rounds," each posing a specific question about system design, philosophy, implementation, or use.