Department of Mathematics and Computer Science




Parallel Toolbox for MATLAB

The MATLAB scientific package is a leading computation and graphics software system for engineers. It has become the premier software package for interactive numeric computation, data analysis, graphics, and scientific computing. The Parallel Toolbox (PT) has been created to provide MATLAB programmers a tool to easily run and test parallel algorithms without losing the power and ease of MATLAB.

About MATLAB and PVM

More information about MATLAB can be found at Mathworks.
More information about PVM can be found at Netlib Repository.

Downloading

  • download a postscript version of the PT users manual.
  • download PT in compressed format.

    These files may also be accessed via FTP at web.mthcsc.wfu.edu/pub/pt.

    PT is in a developing phase. It has been compiled succesfully in a cluster of SUN SPARC 5 workstations running MATLAB 4.2c and PVM 3.7. We do not guarantee that it will compile for every system. However, if this toolbox turns out to be of any use to you, we will greatly appreciate your input and ideas as it may keep this project alive.

    Questions concerning PT?

    Currently, efforts are being made to improve robustness of PT Error Display, and to port PT to the IBM SP2 at Maui High Performance Computing Center, Hawaii. Please send any questions to:
    Pau'l Pauca
    Joel Hollingsworth

    Developers

    PT was developed by four computer science graduate students at Wake Forest University as a part of a software engineering class during the spring semester 1995. These students are:

    Pau'l Pauca
    Kun Liu
    Joel Hollingsworth
    Rudy Martinez