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Wolfram Research introduces Version 2 of its widely used gridMathematica software at Supercomputing 2004 in Pittsburgh this week. gridMathematica is now optimized for virtually all Top500 supercomputers, heterogeneous grids, and personal workstations. With gridMathematica, scientists and engineers can easily develop parallel applications using the uniquely productive and interactive Mathematica environment and deploy them seamlessly on any supercomputer. Features of gridMathematica 2 include significant scheduling and performance enhancements, automatic parallelization of wider classes of computations, programmable scheduling for problem-specific tuning, support for speculative parallelism, improved failure recovery and user configurability, universal database connectivity, web services support, high speed binary I/O, industrial strength string manipulation, and full optimization for all 64-bit architectures. Building on the rich Mathematica foundation, gridMathematica is perfectly suited for numerical supercomputing applications as well as parallel processing of complex non-numeric data such as images, 2D and 3D vector graphics, geospatial information, genomic sequences, algebraic formulas, logical and program constructs, and general symbolic data. Since its introduction in 2002, gridMathematica has been successfully deployed by many major corporations, government organizations, and universities including: Aerospace Corp, Argonne National Laboratory, Columbia University, Dow Chemical, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Kyoto University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MIT, NASA Langley, Queen's University, RAND Corporation, Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital, Seagate Technology, Silicon Graphics, Space Telescope Science Institute, Thomson Multimedia, University of California at Berkeley, University of North Carolina, University of Tokyo, Yale University, and many more. At Supercomputing 2004, Wolfram Research is partnering with Apple, HP, Intel, Microsoft, and Orion Multisystems to showcase gridMathematica 2 on a variety of high-performance systems. In addition, a free introductory training class on gridMathematica is being offered by the Wolfram Education Group. Wolfram Research is the world's leading developer of computational software for science and technology, offering organization-wide computing solutions. Led by Mathematica, its flagship product, the company's software is relied on today by several million enthusiastic users around the world and has been the recipient of many industry awards. Wolfram Research was founded in 1987 by Stephen Wolfram, who continues to lead the company today. The company is headquartered in the United States, with offices in Europe and Japan. Go to http://www.wolfram.com for more information about Wolfram Research and its products. For more information about gridMathematica 2, see: http://www.wolfram.com/gridmathematica2